white city and the knowledge economy prof david gann cbe vice
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White City and the knowledge economy
Prof David Gann CBE Vice President (Development and Innovation)
@DavidMGann @imperialcollege
Major capital investments
Imperial College 1910s
Imperial College 1960s
Imperial West 2010s
Discovery & the natural world
Leading the data revolution
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#Imperial West
25-acre £3bn innovation district @imperialcollege at White City
Imperial College Hammersmith
Hospital
Imperial College St Mary’s Hospital
Imperial College Royal Brompton Hospital
Imperial College Chelsea and Westminster
Hospital
Imperial College Charing Cross
Hospital
ThinkSpace
Imperial College South Kensington
Research and Translation Hub
Imperial College Silwood Park
Campus
#Imperial West 25-acre £3bn innovation district @imperialcollege at White City
scale of opportunity
~4m sqft on 25 acres
Imperial West
South Kensington
St. Mary’s
Royal Brompton
Chelsea & Westminster
Imperial College NHS
University campus
Charing Cross
Hammersmith
#Imperial West 3 miles from South Kensington
Crossrail
HS2 Heathrow Express
Imperial West
Hammersmith Hospital
Wood Lane Studios
already home to 600 postgraduate students
construction underway
the flagship £250M Research & Translation Hub to be completed by 2017
Research & Translation Hub
to house Imperial’s Department of Chemistry, start-ups, spin-outs and corporates
co-location at scale
creating 200 new homes
planning a residential tower
White City Foundry
optimising meanwhile opportunities already providing space to 70 start-ups and spin-outs
home to DNA Electronics and the London base of Europe’s EIT ICT Labs
Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub
co-locating engineers, scientists and clinicians researching new and affordable medical technology
White City development partners
St James £100m ~1.5m sqft
Residential
Westfield shopping centre
extension Retail
Imperial West
BBC Media Village
BBC Television Centre: Stanhope 1000 consented homes Residential
Biomedical ecosystem
Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Hub
MedCity
Digital ecosystem
Smart London Board
SMART LONDON PLAN
Using the creative power of new technologies to
serve London and improve Londoners’ lives Data Science Institute
Cambridge
Oxford
UCL
Kings
M4 Hi-tech Corridor
Imperial
Connected Digital Economy Catapult
Cell Therapy Catapult
Crick Institute
Med City
Tech City
Future Cities Catapult