About Us

The Eco Innovation Centre (EIC) Peterborough is part of  a network of Innovation Centres spread across the East of England. The EIC has been established to offer specialised support to the fast-growing Environment Goods & Services sector and to promote and assist companies and new start-up ventures committed to  using best environmental practice both in Peterborough and across the EU.

Specifically, it aims to:

• Provide flexible space to incubate and develop your business
• Support innovation, enterprise & entrepreneurship
• Enable networking between businesses & other innovative & technological organisations

The project to establish the Centre was formed as a partnership between EEDA, PCC, CSEng, UKCEED and was led by the urban redevelopment company, Opportunity Peterborough. Anchor Tenants include the Centre for Sustainable Engineering (CSEng), the UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development (UKCEED) as well as Instaprise Solutions.  CEED Management operates the facility, providing a commercial backbone whilst utilising the unique services of UKCEED whom offer specialist advice in the form of surgeries and connecting clients to existing support networks locally, regionally, nationally and internationally . Advice ranges from how to set up a business to sources of financing, guidance for patenting ideas, sanity-checks for commercial applications and routes to market.

The EIC is home to more than 45 diverse companies and the envirocluster which operates from within the Centre is an interactive network of a further 300 companies.  For a comprehensive directory of clients of the EIC please click here