Setting Up New Sites

We enable landowners and land developers to create viable business innovation spaces through our advice and experience.

If you are looking to stimulate more economic growth in your region by supporting growing and scaling businesses, consider the creation of employment space in the form of an innovation site or incubator.

What is an innovation space?

An innovation space is a site that encourages the creation of new ideas, products, viable businesses and jobs. They can be in the form of incubators,

accelerators, enterprise parks or science and innovation parks. At these sites, the business community is at the heart of it’s success.

Why create an innovation space/Incubator?

• Innovation spaces are more attractive to businesses that want additional support
• You can protect your investment by supporting your customers based on site
• There is an explicitly higher demand for innovation spaces than typical industrial units
• These spaces are a great way to have a real economic development impact on the region
• Attract future investment to your site through the economic impact and businesses you create and support

Why speak to Hethel Innovation about your project?

• We are experts in creating and operating commercially viable business spaces, with 12+ years of facilities management experience
• We have a multi-skilled team who offer advice on all areas of innovation site management
• We know how to generate economic development impact through an innovation site and have supported over 800 businesses, created nearly 500 jobs, and facilitated nearly 100 collaborations

“Hethel Innovation provided 2-stage (design concept viability and operational preparation) ‘critical friend’ client support to our district council throughout our scoping and refinement exercise for a major new ‘Skills and Innovation Centre’ in Stowmarket. This development is part of the Gateway 14 employment site off junction 50 of the A14 in Suffolk (one of three sites comprising Freeport East).

Their sectoral insight, including from their own successful growing operation and workspace and event management in Norfolk, helped us to distil our evidence base into a focused and optimal scheme and support our preparations for procuring an operator and marketing.

Their responsiveness and future-proofing advice was a key factor in our full business case approvals in late 2023/early 2024 – we had a significant amount of research, key stakeholder inputs, evidence base and design work to balance and Hethel Innovation provided a trusted sounding board and quality reporting to help us achieve good outcomes ready for the next stage of our project.”

Lee Carvell (Regeneration & Capital Projects Manager) Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Council