Imperial's White City Campus is a world-class innovation ecosystem, which brings together academia, industry and local community partners to share ideas and solve today's global challenges.

As a leading research-intensive university, Imperial has extensive experience of assembling various health, industry, and government partners on collaborative projects. This is being applied on a broader canvas at White City, taking on stewardship role to spearhead place-based innovation and convene people and networks. Here, the College’s place-based approach enables residents to benefit from outreach, educational and wider skills and employment opportunities that come with the growing presence of the White City Innovation District. 



Imperial’s community of innovators has grown out of the College’s partnership with the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham (LBHF). In 2017, the council launched an industrial strategy called Economic Growth for Everyone. The result was a collective effort between business, higher education, and local government that attracted billions of pounds of investment and hundreds of companies to the area. Today, students and researchers at Imperial benefit from our close links to public and private sector partners, and our research makes a meaningful difference.



White City Innovation District is underpinned by the LBHF Industrial Strategy and Imperial College London’s new White City campus. Together, they laid the foundations for an ecosystem which has since attracted entrepreneurs and established innovators, all seeking new solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.



At the heart of the White City Innovation District, the White City Campus is where great ideas grow. Academics here are publishing ground-breaking research and turning their ideas into new ventures. Businesses, large and small, are leading the world in areas like quantum engineering, clean energy and machine learning. With close links to Hammersmith Hospital, we are running clinical trials into vital topics like dementia, cancer, infectious diseases and therapeutics. While the ideas generated here have a global impact, we are firmly rooted in White City. We run programmes for local school children, inspiring the next generation of scientists and innovators. And our Campus is a place where the local community is welcome. No matter their age, everyone can learn, be inspired and invent in White City.

“Innovation comes from environments where ideas can connect, and Imperial's White City Campus is the embodiment of this vision. We have created an inclusive and engaging environment that supports our researchers in tackling some of science’s deepest questions and some of society’s most urgent problems. Our approach to translation and commercialisation is at the heart of this.

At White City, we are driving technological innovations across rapidly growing sectors, including quantum, advanced materials, life sciences, genomics, robotics and artificial intelligence. We turn science, creativity and ideas into real products and services that can disrupt industries, transform lives and drive the UK’s ambition to become a ‘science superpower’."

- Professor Mary Ryan, Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise)