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Edinburgh Science Triangle has been named the most enterprising area in Scotland in the Enterprising Britain 2007 competition.

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Edinburgh Science Triangle is ranked in the world’s top twenty science parks.

Edinburgh Science Triangle offers:

More than 300,000 square metres of class-leading accommodation for offices and laboratories will eventually house 15,000 highly-skilled researchers within around 200 hectares of landscaped parkland.

Seven different sites are all within 30 minutes of each other, the city centre, the airport and all of Edinburgh’s acclaimed universities and research institutes.

Around 130 indigenous and international companies employ in excess of 3000 staff already in these stunning rural locations surrounding Edinburgh, providing a work environment unmatched by any other and an enviable lifestyle choice of the best city living in the UK or Scotland’s great countryside.

The seven science parks in the Edinburgh Science Triangle are:

Edinburgh Science Triangle was voted the most enterprising area in Scotland in 2007.