Tokamak Solutions is one of 15 companies at Culham Innovation Centre, which last month celebrated its tenth birthday. Since it opened, 66 companies employing about 250 people have used the centre.
One of them, Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab UK, has grown to a company employing more than 2,000 people, now headquartered at Milton Park, near Didcot. Founded by Eugene Kaspersky, another Russian, it started with three programmers in 1997.
Serial entrepreneur Chris Errey, who spoke at the anniversary event, was a founder of one of the first occupiers, Toumaz Technology, a wireless body-monitoring specialist which has also grown into new premises at Milton Park, with more than 60 employees.
One of the largest current occupiers of Culham Innovation Centre is Reaction Engines, whose founder, Alan Bond, is developing an engine for an unmanned spaceplane, Skylon, which would take off like an aeroplane, but then turn into a space rocket as it entered the upper atmosphere.
The aim of the innovation centre is to develop commercial ventures which will grow to become major employers to fill the gap when the Jet project's European funding runs out in 2019.
* Contact: Culham Innovation Centre, 01865 408300.
Web: www.oxin.co.uk/centre/culham
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