Paul Draper, managing director of draperVENT, and Sarah Uzzell, deputy chair of Dorset LEP, at the opening of draperVENT’s Agri-tech Innovation Centre A £1.9MILLION research and innovation centre which will create 20 jobs and safeguard 18 more has opened in Dorset. Draper Ventilation Limited – draper VENT – opened the Agri-tech Innovation Centre at Dorset Innovation Park, the Enterprise Zone on Winfrith’s former atomic energy site. draperVENT received a £740,000 Growing Places Fund loan from Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). It bought the land and developedthe 1,720 square metre facility within a year. draperVENT says the site will host research and innovation in automated livestock farming systems to achieve higher levels of animal welfare and sustainability.