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About 

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If you're looking for somewhere to get your agritech business started, or do some research, the Eastern Agri-Tech Innovation Hub is for you. 

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The Hub is an incubator research centre dedicated to reducing crop and food waste or channeling waste into higher grade end products. The Hub is equipped to run as a field/test station where NIAB can work with local and national businesses to carry out commercial-scale pilot studies and research. The ultimate aim is to improve the resource use efficiency in the horticultural and fresh produce supply chains. 

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Situated just outside Cambridge, and managed by NIAB, we can offer you access to an office work space, boardroom or laboratory. Alternatively, why not become a virtual hub member? 

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Facilities 

  • Main building: reception, board room, hot-desk office, meeting rooms, kitchen, shower facilities, fully equipped laboratory, main work room with heating, work benches and fume cupboards

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  • Outbuilding with three sub compartments currently being used by our Hub licensees 

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  • Warehouse for research and pilot testing with water and power

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  • Field lab

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  • Two large polytunnels with hydroponic growing systems; deep water and ebb & flow

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  • Outside growing areas

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  • Two small research glasshouses with benching and frost-free heating

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  • Tractor shed

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  • Parking 

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  • A 33KW solar farm feeding back into the facility and back to the grid when over capacity

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  • A 10KW ground source heat pump working with solar thermal panels

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  • An aerobic PRM bio digester which breaks down organic material into a highly efficient fertiliser or fuel for a bio boiler

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  • A bio disc; a small scale sewage treatment plant

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  • Air source heat pumps to heat and cool the polytunnel

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  • Two rainwater harvesting systems

Become a licensee at the Hub 

  • Enter into a license agreement with NIAB at a competitive rate, ranging from 3 months to a year

  • Stage events to showcase innovations or meet potential partners/customers

  • Lease shared office space

  • Hire meeting rooms

  • Work with us in collaborative bids for research or innovation funding

  • Seek bespoke training or join regular training events with ARTIS

  • Discuss field or trials in horticulture, agriculture and ornamentals with us

  • Enquire about apprenticeships either with NIAB or our partners

  • Farmer and industry connections

Join the Innovation Hub Club 

  • Suitable for those who do not need to rent a space at the Hub as a licensee but who are interested in joining the community 

  • From £300 +VAT/year (membership requires approval)

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Benefits Include:

  • Full access to our Hub administrator to help you arrange meetings with farmers and other business people

  • Free use of the board meeting room for up to six farmer industry meetings per year of three participants or more (subject to availability and booking required)

  • Part of the Hub Community

  • We can work with you to identify potential customers and contacts within the industry

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