During the period of 1927–29 EMI invested in developing a research and innovation centre that arguably set the tone for many of the technological advancements that would occur over the next 80 years in the UK and was held in extremely high regard globally.

After the Scipher company flotation, many key long-serving staff members started to exercise their extensive share options as they matured and took early retirement.

This subsequently enabled many to these purchasers to become and extend their positions as market leaders and generate significant business successes and profits.

[citation needed] After the demise of Scipher Plc many questions were asked about how a historic organisation like CRL was allowed collapse and disappear so easily.

[citation needed] In 2016, a private investment organisation, with the support of Brunel University London and HEFCE, the Central Research Laboratory was reborn in the form of an innovation incubation centre, only a stone's throw from the previous CRL site in Hayes.