University of Warwick to Deliver New HealthTech Campus
The University of Warwick have announced their involvement in the delivery of a new HealthTech Campus which will bring new health technology to market.
Based at Arden Cross, the campus forms part of a wider Innovation District within a £3.2 billion regeneration opportunity facilitated by the HS2 Interchange station in Solihull.
The announcement comes after the University signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Arden Cross Ltd in 2022.
As part of the Campus commitment, the University has also signed a Statement of Intent with Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, and Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council.
It outlines how partnership working will maximise investment at Arden Cross and extend the new Campus’s benefits throughout Solihull and the West Midlands.
The Campus will promote access to healthcare technologies
In bringing the public, private, and academic sectors together, the HealthTech Campus will foster an advance life sciences cluster anchored by the University of Warwick.
The Campus will define problems, design solutions, and bring new health technology to market through its partnerships with industry, clinicians, the NHS, Government, and leading researchers, and allow the NHS to access technologies which have been developed and harnessed in the UK.
A Digital Health Innovation Hub on the Campus will provide start-ups and SMEs with access to the NHS and other healthcare providers for early-stage development and testing, trials, and evaluation.
Furthermore, a Medical Technology Evaluation Centre will support the introduction of new devices and technologies into medical practice.
The two facilities will be backed by the University of Warwick’s world-leading research and academic expertise in areas such as evaluative and data science. Stuart Croft, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick, said:
The HealthTech Campus will help the Life Sciences and Medical Technology sector in the West Midlands to grow. It will also add value to the NHS and UK healthcare sector.
“The University of Warwick is already recognised for driving innovation in life sciences. The new Campus will strengthen our world-leading education and research work. It will also help us leverage investment from the public and private sectors and build academic partnerships.
“Arden Cross is one of the best-connected locations in the UK and a great opportunity to create positive change. It will also play a key role in boosting inclusive and sustainable economic growth regionally and nationally.”
Arden Cross could boost the economy by more than a billion a year
Andy Street expressed his optimism for the HealthTech Campus, as well as the wider benefits Arden Cross will bring to the West Midlands: “Arden Cross is set to become a global business destination which is why the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) is investing in the infrastructure needed to support the wider location.
“As one of our region’s most valuable partners, the University of Warwick has been quick to recognise the enormous potential of working together at Arden Cross, demonstrating our strength as an innovation-led economy, alongside the ability of HS2 to attract and enable major investment.
The HealthTech Campus at Arden Cross will be at the very centre of an innovation network – not just in life sciences, but in many of the UK’s most important and exciting sectors.
“That network will also help grow the region’s industries of the future to create a low carbon, high tech economy capable of offering well paid jobs and valuable opportunities to local people in the months and years ahead.”
A world leading economic hub for the Midlands, Arden Cross is a response to the government’s levelling up agenda. The development is set to create jobs, skills, connectivity, opportunities, and wealth across the region and the wider UK.
