About
Founded on decades of innovation, Harwell Innovation Centre is an ever-growing community of pioneering businesses in the science and technology sector, based at the world-renowned Harwell Campus. We bring together visionaries and entrepreneurs and provide them with the space, business support and the opportunities needed to grow and thrive in a collaborative and inspiring environment.
Founded on decades of innovation, Harwell Innovation Centre is an ever-growing community of pioneering businesses in the science and technology sector, based at the world-renowned Harwell Campus. We bring together visionaries and entrepreneurs and provide them with the space, support and opportunities needed to grow and thrive in a collaborative and inspiring environment.
Our heritage
Originally starting life as an Officer’s Mess on RAF Harwell, the centre has always been at the heart of the innovative development of the Harwell Campus. Following the ground-breaking advancement of nuclear energy in the late ‘40s and ‘50s, the centre became home to many apprentices from all over the world, and continues to be to this day.
Our vision
Harwell Innovation Centre provides contemporary, flexible office and meeting facilities with a vibrant, collaborative community, closely aligned to the rest of Harwell Campus. We share Harwell Campus’s vision to improve the lives of people through pioneering research and discoveries.
Harwell Campus.
Where brilliance thrives.
Harwell Campus is a science and innovation district the size of a small town, helping to fire the next generation of visionaries across a great breadth of sectors, including science, space, life science, energy, advanced materials and health-tech. Millions of people globally have already benefited from the innovation and inventions developed here – and you could be part that success.
The ideal place to base your business, just south of Oxford city centre.
- Directly off the A34, 10 minutes from the M4 motorway, 30 minutes from the M40
- Regular bus service links with Didcot Parkway Rail Station and Oxford University
- London Heathrow and Southampton airports are less than one hour by road
- Didcot Parkway is 5 miles away, with direct service to London Paddington and Oxford City Centre
Managed by Oxford Innovation
We're part of Oxford Innovation Space, a network of innovation centres throughout the UK and Ireland supporting businesses of all sizes with flexible workspace, expert business support and partnerships with local enterprise ecosystems.
Centre Manager
