What the Incubator provides:

The University of Manchester Incubator Company and its partners will provide a highly supportive environment, enabling companies to quickly develop from a fragile start-up to a resilient and commercially successful business. These specialist support elements include:

• Onsite services and support from qualified business support practitioners including access to educational resources and enterprise training programmes


• High quality IT, telephony, meeting and reception facilities


• Assistance with marketing and business development.


• Easy access to competitively priced grow-on space when the time is right for expansion and moving on.


• Facilitating essential contact networks and providing networking opportunities.


• Client introductions/referral opportunities including links to University of Manchester research base and business commercialisation activities of our sister company University of Manchester Intellectual Property Ltd


• Tenants become part of the University of Manchester's network "Manchester Momentum”: a unique network of companies that have a strong connection with the University. The network meets regularly and aims to address the needs of its members through their relationship with the University and with each other.

Components from the Plasma Clean filtration system now under development in the Incubator (above)

Why Incubate in Stockport?    What does the Incubator provide?   
Who should Incubate at Stockport?    What will be expected of me?   
Who will I be with?         Download Application Pack (pdf).
Download Broadstone Knowledge Mill Incubator Information Pack (pdf).

We recognise the importance of working in close partnership with a whole host of other agencies involved in business incubation and business support in the region. Appropriate sign posting and introductions to these other agencies is therefore another key element of the incubator support structure.