Lowell, MA – Located in Lowell’s historic Hamilton Canal District, the UMass Lowell Innovation Hub (iHub) and The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2) have officially opened.
The 22,000sf business incubator occupies the top two floors of the 110 Canal Street building, formerly the Freudenberg Nonwoven Mill. The iHub features coworking spaces, meeting rooms, café, and a maker space in a flexible, friendly, modern space. The M2D2 space provides coworking, meeting, and lab spaces for biomedical and medical device startups. Spaces are designed to foster collaboration and to support a variety of styles of working.
ICON Architecture, Inc. is the architect for the project.
IHub fosters innovation, entrepreneurship, economic development, and job creation by linking the region’s technology startups and entrepreneurs to resources that facilitate the development, manufacturing and commercialization of their respective innovations. It hosts technology based startup companies based on university technology as well as innovations and concepts developed in the larger, regional entrepreneurial community.
M2D2 supports the state’s smaller medical device companies, offering inventors and executives easy, affordable, and coordinated access to world-class researchers. The 110 Canal Center is the second M2D2 facility on the UMass Lowell campus.
The new center is made up of a fully-equipped, shared lab facility that can house 50 researchers.
