The South West is finally to become home to a major £300 million science park. 
 
In 2004 the South West RDA purchased 21 hectares of land between the M4 and the Avon ring road at Emersons Green on Bristol's north fringe to deliver the first phase of a new science park comparable in size and scope to the best in the UK like Warwick, Cambridge, Oxford and Manchester.  
 
 
The science park is expected to make the South West even more attractive to business creating in excess of 6,000 highly skilled, high value jobs when fully completed.  
 
Acting as a major hub for science and technology in the north of the region, demand for the park will come from the established key sectors in the South West; aerospace and defence, digital technologies and biotechnology.