The Knowledge Quarter is a
knowledge cluster, situated in a small area of
London
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around King's Cross, the Euston Road and Bloomsbury.
The partners of the Knowledge Quarter include
The British Library
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,
The British Museum
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,
Google
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,
The Alan Turing Institute,
Francis Crick Institute
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,
Springer Nature
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/
Holtzbrinck
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,
The Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of Burroughs Wellcome, one of the predeces ...
,
The Guardian
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,
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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,
Royal College of Physicians
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,
UCL,
SOAS
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,
University of London
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and
Working Men's College
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amongst others.
See also
*
Knowledge Quarter, Liverpool
The "Knowledge Quarter" is an area of Liverpool city centre covering 450 acres, incorporating the vicinity around London Road, Islington, the so called 'Fabric District', Paddington Village and part of Canning.
The Knowledge Quarter contains a ...
References
External links
* http://www.knowledgequarter.london/
Areas of London
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