About Edinburgh Science Triangle

Purpose

Edinburgh Science Triangle is a multi-disciplinary partnership aiming to promote the city region as a world-class science destination. It is a pioneering collaboration of universities and research institutes, science parks, local authorities and the national economic development agency Scottish Enterprise.

The economic objectives are to attract new investment and build a scientific community with unrivalled levels of interaction and knowledge exchange between academic research and industry.

What we do

The partnership provides a supportive community and offers access to knowledge and expertise, resources and facilities, new technologies, accommodation and services, business support and networks across the scientific spectrum – from the environmental consultancies and the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt Research Park to the bioincubators at Roslin BioCentre and Edinburgh Bioquarter. As well as these examples there is a myriad of high-technology firms – software development, nanotechnology, clean-tech, renewables and more.

The Easter Bush Campus brings to one site The Roslin Institute of the University of Edinburgh, the Moredun Research Institute, the Animal Sciences Researchers of the Scottish Agricultural College and the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies – forming one of the largest groups in the world focussed on the biology of companion and production animals.

The People

The Edinburgh Science Triangle Team works to present these differing disciplines to a wider audience, including potential investors, development agencies and potential tenants, while stressing the importance of technology and knowledge transfer in an environment ideally suited to growing technology firms.

The project is supported by Partners and part-funded by European Structural Funds.