A thriving science
& tech community
Choose from office, work and laboratory space available at our innovation centre in Oxford
Located in a stunning woodland setting, the Wood Centre for Innovation offers a wide range of flexible workspaces to grow your business. From private offices and coworking space in our Barclays Eagle Lab, to specialist R&D facilities, laboratories and workshops, we have the perfect space available for your science or technology focused business.
As well as fantastic location in Headington, the Centre is one of Oxford’s most efficient buildings with natural heating and cooling systems. It also includes a range of indoor and outdoor meeting facilities, allocated car and cycle parking, and superfast broadband.
Located in a stunning woodland setting, the Wood Centre for Innovation offers a wide range of flexible workspaces to grow your business. From private offices and coworking space in our Barclays Eagle Lab, to specialist R&D facilities, laboratories and workshops, we have the perfect space available for your science or technology focused business.
As well as fantastic location in Headington, the Centre is one of Oxford’s most efficient buildings with natural heating and cooling systems. It also includes a range of indoor and outdoor meeting facilities, allocated car and cycle parking, and superfast broadband.
Oxford Centre for Innovation
Located in the heart of Oxford, our sister centre, Oxford Centre for Innovation offers affordable and flexible workspace solutions for start-up and early-stage businesses specialising in science and technology. Perfectly positioned, the centre is just a five-minute walk away from the main rail and bus transport hubs and close to many of the University of Oxford’s physical sciences facilities, the Saïd Business School and social entrepreneurship centres.
Get expert business advice and support
Our on-site Innovation Director is on hand to help your businesses thrive, whether it’s offering advice on making big decisions, introducing you to useful contacts or answering your questions on best business practice. Benefit from expert in-person and virtual support, all included within your flexible workspace rental package.
Our Innovation Director is on hand to help all the centre’s businesses thrive, whether it’s offering advice on making big decisions, introducing you to useful contacts or answering your questions on best business practice.
In great company
Hear what our community of science and tech entrepreneurs say about the Wood Centre for Innovation.
"Cancer patients are in desperate need of the promising immunotherapies that we have in development. The Oxford Trust and the supportive community they have built at the Wood Centre for Innovation is an ideal home for our team to focus on the research needed to make these treatments a reality."
Kevin Maskell
CSO & co-founder Bioarchitech
"The Wood Center for Innovation has been an ideal home Samsara’s Biology Team hive as we incubate and innovate new therapeutics for treating neurodegenerative disorders. We love socializing in the café, the woodland setting of the laboratory space, and the proximity to Oxford University."
Tim Piser
Head of Research and Development,
Samsara Therapeutics
"There is no better place for DJS Antibodies to take its next steps as part of the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie. The Wood Centre for Innovation laboratories are state-of-the-art, and we are in walking distance of four world-leading Oxford University research hospitals, providing easy links to some of the best academics in the world, allowing us to contribute to and benefit from this world-leading biomedical ecosystem. We’re thrilled to call the Wood Centre for Innovation our home."
Joe Illingworth
Director of Research,
DJS Antibodies
"We chose The Wood Centre because as our business develops, we needed immediate expansion space, as well as to benefit from the expert business support that comes with the space through its innovation director who is always on hand to aid us. It’s great to be part of a community which is made up of so many different companies while being located in Oxford and surrounded by lovely woodland!"
Alex Greenhalgh
Founder of Spintex
"The Wood Centre for Innovation is perfect for the needs of a growing biotech, with state-of-the art facilities in a great location and it allows us to expand the team over the coming months."
Peter Hamley
Chief Scienctific Officer, Samsara Therapeutics
"There could not be a better place for DJS to take its next steps as a rapidly growing biotech company. With state-of-the-art new laboratories, right between Oxford’s two major hospitals, and just a stone’s throw from some of the best academics and young companies in the world, we’re thrilled to call the Wood Centre for Innovation our new home."
David Llewellyn
Chief Executive Officer, DJS Antibodies
In great company
Hear what our customers say about our Innovation Centre.
"We chose The Wood Centre because as our business develops, we needed immediate expansion space, as well as to benefit from the expert business support that comes with the space through its innovation director who is always on hand to aid us. It’s great to be part of a community which is made up of so many different companies while being located in Oxford and surrounded by lovely woodland!"
Alex Greenhalgh
Founder of Spintex
Talk to our team
Talk to the team to arrange a virtual or in-person viewing on 01865 945 500.
