Eagle Labs Cranfield

About the company

Barclays has partnered with Cranfield University to support the future innovators of Bedfordshire.

The space in the heart of the University campus is tailored to the aerospace and aviation technology community, drawing on the University’s aerospace heritage.

Eagle Labs are spaces to help entrepreneurs and ambitious businesses to innovate and scale.

Eagle Labs have dedicated co-working, office and event space for businesses to work, receive structured mentoring, attend technical events and participate in industry-focused transformation programmes.

From each location, Eagle Labs aims to cultivate a community of like-minded entrepreneurs who can benefit from access to a collaborative environment and peer networks. Each community benefits from access to curated activity relevant to maximise growth opportunities, including Barclays’ transatlantic connections and Barclays’ banking products and services.

Eagle Labs also offer support to established larger organisations that have developed programmes to help larger corporates create an entrepreneurial culture by introducing innovative practices and encouraging intrapreneurship.

With Eagle Labs dotted across the UK and more in the pipeline, the focus is to help accelerate UK scale-ups, promote collaborative innovation across the entire ecosystem and enable access to and training on new and emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, 3D-printing and the Internet of Things which make up Industry 4.0 – the fourth industrial revolution.