| AdminHistory | Kirkton Campus was Scotland's first high technology park, designed for research and development orientated business. Prior to being developed as a technology park, Corporation plans for the site included trying to tempt Heriot Watt University and the World Health Organisation to locate in the area, both attempts failed. Development of plans for site began in 1969 and the Scottish Office gave approval in 1972. The first occupants of Kirkton Campus, Arbrook Division of Ethicon Ltd, part of Johnson and Johnson, loacted to the site in 1975. The Corporation was stringent in its assigment of leases on Campus to only high technology firms. By the 1980s Kirkton Campus had firms representing microelectronics, pharmaceuticals, medical instrumentation and the computer software industries and was key in forming what was called Silicon Glen. |