Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

Harston based Generics has developed an outstanding reputation for innovation since its foundation in 1986.

The leading integrated technology consulting, development and investment organisation invests in and develops technologies that underpin the future of the widest range of industries.

Its key areas of expertise include: engineering, materials, telecoms, life sciences, business innovation and electronics.

Generics’ facilities include state-of-the-art laboratories and are located in Cambridge, UK; in Zürich, Switzerland; in Stockholm, Sweden; and in and Baltimore in the USA. The company now has over 300 employees, of which more than half are high-calibre technology professionals.

This derives from its open environment in which highly qualified professionals enjoy excellent levels of freedom and responsibility and a challenging range of multi-disciplinary projects. Generics’ employees work in interdisciplinary teams designed to encourage the cross-fertilisation of ideas. Individuals are of the highest calibre, combining specific disciplines with creativity and commercial awareness.

They are actively encouraged to create new concepts and business opportunities under their own initiative.

Generics benefits from an extensive network of contacts in industrial and academic organisations; world class laboratory facilities; and an outstanding track record of innovation in business strategy, modelling tools and technology strategy development.

These factors enable the group to sustain a world-class knowledge of business, technology and science and to provide innovative solutions to leading companies worldwide.