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Professor Matt Freeman is the Centre Director for Future Space, which is an innovation centre sited on the Frenchay campus of the University of West England, just north of Bristol. Future Space is made up of offices and labs around the themes of advanced engineering, health & life sciences, digital, green and creative technology.

Being located in the University Enterprise Zone means that it is ideally placed to bring academia, researchers, innovators and business entrepreneurs together in collaboration.

Matt joined Future Space in November 2023, moving from his academic professor role at Bath Spa University in multi-platform digital media. He has first-hand knowledge of being an entrepreneur of a new business coming out from research at the university.

The question of how to bring together everything that is brilliant about universities into everything that is brilliant about the commercial world has become a passion of his. His new role at Future Space certainly fits the bill.