JDGS Holdings is a privately owned group building and developing specialist businesses across life science, agriculture and technology. Businesses maintain their own identities and specialist audiences while drawing, where useful, on shared capability across research, technology, infrastructure, operations, finance and business development.
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Our businesses work in very different fields, but many of the capabilities required to build them are shared. JDGS brings together research, technology, infrastructure, operations, finance and business development while allowing each business to retain its own identity, expertise and audience. We build with a long-term perspective, developing businesses, intellectual property and specialist knowledge over time.
JDGS builds and operates specialist businesses across three broad areas.
Research, technologies and applied work spanning infectious disease, nanomedicine, biological systems and health security.
Explore life science →Research, publishing and practical projects concerned with agriculture, food, resilience and the natural world.
Explore agriculture →Infrastructure, networks, digital services and technology supporting organisations and the wider JDGS portfolio.
Explore technology →JDGS is actively involved in building its businesses. Our role can include developing new ideas, establishing operations, creating technology and infrastructure, supporting research, developing intellectual property and providing the practical foundations required for specialist businesses to grow. The objective is not simply to launch businesses — it is to build useful organisations with the capability to develop over many years.
Polar Networks is the technology infrastructure business within the JDGS portfolio, covering cloud platforms, network architecture, wireless connectivity and infrastructure…
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