The Cambridge Science Park, founded by Trinity College in 1970, is the oldest

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in the United Kingdom. It is a concentration of science and technology related businesses, and has strong links with the nearby

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. The science park is situated about 3 km to the north of

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city centre, by junction 33 of the A14, in the parish of Milton, contiguous with Cambridge itself. The park is served by Cambridge North railway station and by the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway. It is directly adjacent to St John's Innovation Centre and Cambridge Business Park.

History

The land was originally given to Trinity College when the latter was founded by

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in 1546. The land was used for farming until the

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, when it was requisitioned by the

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and used to prepare vehicles and tanks for D-Day. After the war, the land was left derelict until 1970, when, at the suggestion of

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, and under the supervision of Sir John Bradfield, the college worked with Sir Francis Pemberton of Bidwells to develop it into a new centre for scientific enterprise and innovation. In 2017, following decades of rapid expansion in Cambridge, the park appointed its first director and announced a large investment intended to improve facilities and reduce traffic congestion.

Notable companies

Bio-medical

* Abcam *

Amgen Amgen Inc. (formerly Applied Molecular Genetics Inc.) is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. One of the world's largest independent biotechnology companies, Amgen was established in ...

* Astex *

AstraZeneca AstraZeneca plc () is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with its headquarters at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridge, England. It has a portfolio of products for major diseases in areas includ ...

Bayer Bayer AG (, commonly pronounced ; ) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include pharmaceutica ...

British American Tobacco British American Tobacco plc (BAT) is a British multinational company that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine products. The company, established in 1902, is headquartered in London, England. As of 2019, it is the larg ...

* Dr. Reddy's Laboratories * Napp Pharmaceuticals *

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

* Merck Group

Computer/telecoms

* Arthur D. Little
Bamboo
*

Broadcom Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wirel ...

Citrix Systems Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies. ...

* Cryptomathic * Dassault Systèmes *

DisplayLink DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Research) is a semiconductor and software technology company. They develop the DisplayLink USB graphics technology, which is designed to connect computers and displays using USB, Ethernet, and WiFi. It also allow ...

FlexEnable FlexEnable is a technology provider that develops flexible organic electronics technologies and OTFT materials (branded as FlexiOM™). The company is located on the Cambridge Science Park, just north of Cambridge city centre. FlexEnable was ...

* Frontier Developments
Gearset
*

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It designs, develops, produces and sells telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and various smart ...

Jagex Jagex Limited is a British video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher based at the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, England. It is best known for ''RuneScape'' and ''Old School RuneScape'', both free-to-play massively multipl ...

Linguamatics Linguamatics, headquartered in Cambridge, England, with offices in the United States and UK, is a provider of text mining systems through software licensing and services, primarily for pharmaceutical and healthcare applications. Founded in 2001, ...

Pragamatic
* Ricardo plc *

Toshiba , commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems ...

* Vix Technology

Industrial technology

* Aveva * Beko * Heraeus *

Johnson Matthey Johnson Matthey is a British multinational speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company headquartered in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Early years ...

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters is ...

Roku, Inc. Roku, Inc. ( ) is an American publicly traded company based in San Jose, California, that manufactures a variety of digital media players for video streaming. Roku has an advertising business and also licenses its hardware and software to oth ...

* Xaar plc

Other

Cambridge Assessment University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) is a non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge, which operates under the brand name Cambridge Assessment, and is part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment. It provi ...

* Cambridge Consultants *

Endomag Endomag is a medical device manufacturer, headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with a US office in Austin, Texas. Originally incorporated as Endomagnetics Ltd, the company was founded in 2007 and produces surgical guidance products which assist surge ...

* Grant Thornton UK LLP *Signal Processors Ltd * Worldpay

Cambridge Fun Run

The Cambridge Fun Run is a charity race for Children in Need organised and mainly entered by employees of businesses based in and around the Science Park. It has been held each November since 1989. Contestants compete in teams of four, some in fancy dress, running either one lap (as a group) or four laps (as a relay) of the Science Park ring road. The race begins and ends, and medals and trophies are awarded (for fastest runners and best costumes) in front of the Cambridge Consultants building.GALLERY: 600 workers pass the baton for Children in Need

Gallery

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building File:Cambridge Science Park Innovation Centre.jpg, The Innovation Centre File:Cambridge Science Park Trinity Centre.jpg, The Trinity Centre entrance File:Cambridge Science Park gym.jpg, The health and fitness club File:Cambridge Science Park restaurant pond.jpg, The 2wenty4 restaurant overlooking the south pond File:Cambridge Science Park east pond.jpg, The northeast pond File:Cambridge Science Park west pond.jpg, The northwest pond

Notes

References

External links

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