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Imperial WestTech The Corridor will capitalise on five major

innovation assets:

→ Albertopolis, home to Imperial’s South Kensington
Corridor Campus and many of London’s leading arts, cultural
and scientific institutions, museums and galleries.

→ The rapidly growing Paddington Life Sciences
innovation cluster centred around Imperial’s
St Mary’s Hospital Campus.

→ The White City Innovation District, host to Imperial’s
White City Deep Tech Campus and Hammersmith
Hospital Health Sciences Campus.

→ Old Oak and Park Royal, designated as one of
London’s largest development zones and the planned
Become a catalyst for investment, jobs and inclusive growth home to London’s largest rail and tube transport hub.
Imperial WestTech Corridor → Imperial’s Silwood Park eco-campus, with

Old Oak and its leading programmes and partnerships in
environmental science, biodiversity and sustainability.
Park Royal
Our goal: We will convene a unique set of innovation ecosystem in the London Borough of
innovation assets to create a vibrant new ecosystem Hammersmith and Fulham – the White City Innovation
of globally competitive scale that is a powerful District – demonstrating how a university can work
engine for investment, inclusive economic growth in partnership with its surrounding community. Paddington
and job creation. Life Sciences
Next: The Imperial WestTech Corridor will position White City
Now: Our South Kensington Campus is home to Imperial as the engine at the heart of a thriving Innovation
District
world-leading Faculties of Engineering and Natural innovation ecosystem. It represents a shared goal
Sciences, and a magnet for top global research talent. to create both a world-leading hub for innovation,
Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine, created just 26 years entrepreneurship and technological advancement,
ago, has brought together some of London’s world- and a global beacon of scientific imagination. Albertopolis
renowned medical institutions and NHS campuses to
create a global powerhouse ranked amongst the best And West London has all the characteristics Silwood
Park
in the world for medical and public health research. needed to deliver a globally competitive innovation
Imperial's Business School has strategically positioned ecosystem. These include exceptional anchor
itself at the interface of STEM and business education research institutions, a diverse and productive
and research, challenging old paradigms to imagine population, access to investment capital, high-quality
a thriving, equitable and sustainable business future. existing and planned infrastructure including major
And our Silwood Park eco-campus is at the forefront transport links, and a political environment that
of biodiversity science and policy. supports planned urban development and
inclusive growth.
With the rapid development of our new White City
Deep Tech Campus, we have been able to create Unlocking the potential of the Imperial WestTech
interdisciplinary research programmes of scale Corridor will require a collective strategy involving
in areas such as AI, molecular sciences, medtech, the widest range of stakeholders. And its success
engineering biology and climate science located will be a model for urban transformation and
alongside a growing ecosystem of incubators, economic growth all over the world.
accelerators, startups, scaleups, and industry
partnerships. The next phase of development will see This defining opportunity will not be realised by
further expansion in mathematics, data and computer Imperial alone. Collaboration of this scale requires
sciences, AI and machine learning and business. It is an ambitious convener to demonstrate commitment
the anchor of a larger regeneration project and and impact – and that convener is Imperial.

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