A knowledge mill
The small company often owned and run by experts has over the years proved most adept in taking new ideas to market. They are the machines of conversion and the key to sustained economic regeneration. One Central Park is a place where you can come with your business idea and take it stage by stage from a concept to a fully fledged company under one roof. This is achieved through One Central Park’s unique Enterprise Train of graded business support fashioned to meet your needs as you and your business develop. The Enterprise Train provides a flexible, responsive yet structured environment catering for people, their ideas and businesses whatever their stage of development from dreaming to floating. Hands on courses in enterprise and innovation allow you to test your ideas whilst coming to understand the fundamentals of starting and running a business. If the idea is valid you can proceed to Venture Point with its open office space and its comprehensive business support before taking up premises of your own in the business incubator. Finally, if your company takes off there is space to accommodate expansion.
The cotton mill owners realised the importance of education and training in providing a local pool of highly skilled people able to maintain the engineering infrastructure and to develop new machines and techniques. The need to support, develop and maintain the new technologies emerging from One Central Park’s companies is no exception to this rule. So it is that alongside the Enterprise Train, there are educational programmes aimed at preparing local people for employment in the companies within and surrounding One Central Park.