Glasgow City Innovation District is home to an incredible range of innovative organisations across a number of sectors. In addition to this, the District is also home to the UK's only Fraunhofer Institute, five UK Catapults and four Scottish Innovation Centres.
If you want to become part of the Innovation District, get in touch with us at info@glasgowcityinnovationdistrict.com.
The Connected Places Catapult is the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and places.
The High-Value Manufacturing Catapult was established by Innovate UK and was created to bridge the gap between business and academia, helping turn ideas into reality.
ORE is delivering the UK's largest clean growth opportunity through accelerating the creation and growth of companies working in offshore renewable energy, bringing together industry and academia to drive innovation.
The Satellite Applications Catapult is at the heart of the satellite services revolution, driving take-up of space technology and applications to shape, and sustain, the world of tomorrow.
Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult, the UK’s authority on compound semiconductor applications and commercialisation.
Glasgow City Innovation District is home to the first Fraunhofer Centre in the UK – the Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) - was set up in 2012 by the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Germany) in close partnership with Strathclyde through the Institute of Photonics, supporting and raising the international profile of photonics research at Strathclyde.
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CENSIS is Scotland's Innovation Centre for sensing, imaging and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. They work with private and public organisations of all sizes to de-risk and accelerate innovation and overcome technology barriers to achieve business transformation.
The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI) is part of the Scottish Funding Council’s Innovation Centre Programme, which is designed to support transformational collaboration between universities and businesses.
The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre supports companies in their innovation journey working across the bioeconomy.
The Data Lab helps companies, organisations and individuals capitalise on the opportunities that exist within data and AI — working with them to grow their operations, develop innovative new projects and ensure they have the data and AI skills needed for the future.
Scottish Chambers of Commerce is at the heart of Scotland’s largest and most influential business to business network. With an unrivalled network of 30 local Chambers of Commerce, we represent more than 12,000 companies and over 50% of Scotland’s private sector workforce.
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Techscaler is a programme for creating, developing and scaling tech startups. They connect entrepreneurs with the experts, teach entrepreneurs world-class playbooks, and host spaces for fellow founders and startup folk to work and hang out.
The District is home to the Royal Academy of Engineering's Enterprise Hub. The aim of the hub is to bring together the minds of the brightest engineering and technology entrepreneurship to help solve complex economic and social challenges.
The Scotland 5G Centre is the national centre for 5G, here to accelerate the demand, deployment and adoption of 5G in Scotland to help change the way businesses operate and help transform the Scottish economy.
NPL is the UK's National Metrology Institute (NMI), developing and maintaining the national primary measurement standards, as well as collaborating with other NMIs to maintain the international system of measurement.
Strathclyde Inspire supports and encourages entrepreneurship in all its forms for the University of Strathclyde's staff, students, and alumni. Strathclyde Inspire is supporting the creation, development, investment and commercialisation of startup and spinout businesses from the University innovation ecosystem. You can get involved by becoming a supporter or investor of the next generation of entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders.
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