If you are a new or growing business and would like to enquire about taking space in the Pool Innovation Centre please call 0800 052 5600 and/or e-mail: enterprisesolutions@plymouth.ac.uk.

If you are interested in future work providing services to the building management company please call 0800 052 5600 and/or e-mail: enterprisesolutions@plymouth.ac.uk.

Please see www.poolinnovationcentre.co.uk for further information.  See the left hand column on this page for an audio podcast featuring new tenants in the Pool Innovation Centre.

The Pool Innovation Centre was opened by HRH The Duke of Kent on Monday 26 July 2010. This is an £11.9 million project led by Cornwall County Council to create 3,500sqm of high quality modern office accommodation aimed at high value, innovative, ambitious businesses in the heart of Pool. This is the first stage of creating an office quarter in Pool as part of the Trevenson Road Implementation Plan.

Pool Innovation Centre is the first innovation and business incubation centres in Cornwall and the management of the building is delivered on behalf of Cornwall Council by the University of Plymouth.

The project has been developed through a wide partnership including Cornwall County Council, Cornwall Development Company, CPR Regeneration, the South West Regional Development Agency, Cornwall College and the Homes and Communities Agency. It is jointly funded through the South West RDA and the ERDF Convergence Fund.

Pool Innovation Centre's mission is to foster innovation and entrepreneurship through research training, business development and incubation in information technologies. The aim is to help turn more ideas into commercial propositions, and thus have an impact on the Cornish economy, generating 300 additional jobs in its first 10 years of operation.

Pool Innovation Centre is a high quality office building incorporating state of the art ICT and environmental technologies. It is being designed to encourage interaction between businesses with a large atrium at its core, space for formal and informal meetings and conference facilities.