Oxford Road Corridor | Home to cutting edge business in Manchester

The Oxford Road Corridor is home to around 3,000 businesses, employing over 96,000 people.

The area has a growing concentration of businesses in life sciences, professional services, and the creative, digital, and tech sectors. These businesses are drawn to the Corridor by its highly skilled talent pool, state-of-the-art premises, excellent connectivity, and close proximity to leading universities and research institutions.

Case Studies

aerial view of city labs 2.0, part of the Bruntwood portfolio on Oxford Road Corridor

QIAGEN

Citylabs 2.0 is home QIAGEN’s Global Centre of Excellence for Precision Medicine. QIAGEN delivers Sample to Insights solutions that enable customers to unlock insights from the building blocks of life.

Novacyt Group

Novacyt Group, incorporating Yourgene Health and Primerdesign works in partnership with international leaders in the field of DNA technology to advance diagnostic science and enable the delivery of genomic medicine.

Roku

Global TV streaming company Roku chose Manchester’s Circle Square as their second UK hub to access its huge existing digital skills-base and proximity to world-leading university-based R&D facilities along the Oxford Road Corridor.

Epic Games

Based at Manchester Science Park, Epic Games Animation UK is the leading provider of automated performance-driven animation to the games industry.

Manchester Digital

Based at Manchester Technology Centre, Manchester Digital is the industry body representing Greater Manchester’s digital and tech industry.

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Watercycle Technologies

Watercycle Technologies develops advanced membranes and innovative filtration systems to produce valuable minerals and clean water.

Aquacheck Engineering

Bamidele Adebisi, Professor of Intelligent Infrastructure Systems at Manchester Met, led an award-winning project to tackle water wastage, a major issue that costs water providers huge sums every year.

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Sites

Enterprise Zone

The Enterprise Zone plays a key role in attracting life sciences, health innovation, med tech, ICT, and advanced materials sectors to Manchester.

External shot of people enjoyig the oudoor space at Mancheter Science Park

Manchester Science Park

A key part of the knowledge quarter, Manchester Science Park is one of the UK’s most established life sciences and tech communities.

Circle Square

Circle Square is Manchester’s new neighbourhood. A place where ideas are brought to life, a place created for forward-thinking people to rub shoulders with pioneering businesses.

CityLabs

CityLabs is world-class hub for health innovation and precision medicine, part of Europe’s largest clinical academic campus.

Base

Base is in the process of a £21m, 91,000 sq ft redevelopment at Manchester Science Park and will offer workspace designed for companies working in high growth, frontier sectors of Industry 4.0.