Food and Drink Innovation Campus

Funding from the Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region Deal will support the development of a new food and drink research and development facility in East Lothian.

The Food and Drink Innovation Campus, known as Edinburgh Innovation Park will be located at Craighall, by Musselburgh, East Lothian, on land next to the Queen Margaret University campus.

The project will deliver a flexible innovation space that will be directly adjacent to, and supported by Queen Margaret University – a university that is leading on international research in Dietetics, Nutrition and Biological Sciences. The innovation space will be set within a significant new wider business development space that will also be unlocked through the project.

This state-of-the-art innovation facility for the food and drink sector in Scotland will drive company growth, supporting and developing existing and creating sustainable new businesses to access a global market for healthy and functional food. The development will allow the Queen Margaret University, along with businesses, to form and grow a business sector that will harness the potential of translational medicine in food and drink. This will in turn support the diversification of the Food and Drink industry towards preventative, therapeutic and rehabilitative applications of expertise in genomics of food and drink sector.