Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland
ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
KEY REASONS TO INVEST IN GLASGOW’S THRIVING ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, employing over 55,000 people with has a global reputation as a centre for a GVA contribution of £3.5 billion. engineering and design excellence. This reputation stems from its role as one of Developing specialist sectors locally 1.5 HOURS the world’s first industrial and heavy and deploying them in global markets is 6 HOURS engineering centres that earned the a key attribute of Glasgow and Scotland. New York Amsterdam city the title of “workshop of the world”. Many successful companies have typically 1 HOURS either grown from, or are strongly connected 2 HOURS The Glasgow City Region is renowned to the city’s internationally recognised Dublin Berlin for its innovative, creative and successful academic expertise and infrastructure. 1 HOUR approach to engineering, design and manufacturing across a range of specialist Access to the very best talent pool, London sectors because it is home to a range Glasgow is ranked no. 1 of the UK’s 10 core of global and indigenous companies cities for producing the highest number of alongside world-class universities and both students and graduates in engineering, colleges, generating a flow of well design and advanced manufacturing. qualified, highly skilled engineers and designers leading the way in industry- With a rate of more than 46%, Glasgow relevant innovation and knowledge. ranks in the top 10% of regions in Europe 3 HOURS for the proportion of working age adults Barcelona Except for London, Glasgow is the with at least a degree-level qualification. only UK city to have two universities ranking in the top 35 nationally. Tailored solutions that meet your business An International requirements provided by a well-established Strategic Location A world-class engineering, design and sophisticated business support and advanced manufacturing business ecosystem including access to extensive Most European destinations are development environment consisting inward investment incentives including job within two hours of Glasgow, of state-of-the-art industry infrastructure creation and R&D grants, low taxes, dedicated offering short journey times and and extensive R&D centres of excellence business support and much more. low cost travel. underpinned by a robust and innovative ‘triple helix’ partnership of industry, Glasgow offers ahigh quality of life academia and the public sector. coupled with cost-effective business costs – labour and property costs are significantly Glasgow City Region is home to just lower compared to Edinburgh, Manchester under 3,000 manufacturing companies and South East England. with a combined turnover of over £10 billion, ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INVEST GLASGOW
A DYNAMIC MIX OF WORLD-RENOWNED ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND WORLD-CLASS TALENT POOL ADVANCED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES Of the UK’s 10 core cities, Glasgow is ranked No. 1 for both the number of higher education sector students and graduates (HESA). 4c Design Forrest Precision Engineering Co Ltd Lockheed Martin UK Aggreko Fraunhofer Gesellschaft M Squared Lasers Ltd Engineering, design and advanced manufacturing students and graduates 2016/2017 BAE Systems Halcrow Group Ltd Rolls-Royce Graduates Students Barr + Wray Ltd Henry Technologies Ltd Selex Communications (Marine) Ltd 12000 Clyde Space Ltd Hewlett-Packard Spire Clydeunion Pumps Howco Group Thales Group 10000 Coherent Scotland Ltd Howden Group Weir Group 8000
Doosan Babcock Jacobs Engineering Group WGM Engineering Ltd 6000
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2000 R&D CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE SPECIALIST SECTORS 0 Glasgow Birmingham Bristol Cardiff Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Sheffield IN GLASGOW • One of only seven UK high value seeks to foster economic growth and launch manufacturing catapults, the Advanced new business development opportunities. • Electronics, Photonics and Sensors Forming Research Centre (AFRC) is • Aerospace a centre of excellence in innovative • The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation • Shipbuilding and Marine Energy WORLD-CLASS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS manufacturing technologies, R&D, and Centre, an industrially led consortium • Advanced Manufacturing metal forming and forging research to consisting of GSK, Ineos, Ingenza, • Glasgow’s universities have long been a hub for driving innovation the university, industrial partners and Glasgow’s college network, • Chemicals support the design and manufacture Sustainable Solutions, Applikon, HGCA, in this sector. The University of Glasgow is home to the oldest offering a non-traditional pathway to an engineering degree • Quantum Technologies of products, across a range of sectors SASOL, Lucite International and 4 School of Engineering in the UK, delivering world-class engineering through the academy. • Space and Satellite Technologies including aerospace, automotive, energy, leading Scottish Universities led by the education for more than 150 years and the University of Strathclyde • Intelligent Transport Systems medical devices and marine. The AFRC University of Strathclyde has a specialist is recognised as one of the UK’s leading technological universities • Product design in engineering degree courses are jointly delivered • Medicine Manufacturing is a collaboration between the University role to stimulate the growth of the sector with seven of its eight engineering departments ranked in the top 10 between the University of Strathclyde and the Glasgow School of Art. of Strathclyde, leading multinational in Scotland to £900m by 2025. in the UK on research power. engineering firms including Rolls-Royce, • Glasgow Caledonian University has a dedicated School of Boeing, TIMET, Aubert & Duval, Barnes • The Off-shore Renewable Energy Catapult • The University of Strathclyde’s engineering school is the biggest Engineering and Built Environment that has earned an excellent LARGE SECTOR Aerospace, Bifrangi and DMG Mori, the is the UK’s leading technology and research in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK. The university has reputation allied to the university’s strong connections to CLUSTER UK Government and Scottish Enterprise. centre for off-shore renewable energy. also instituted an Engineering Academy, a partnership between industry leaders.
• 55,300 people are employed by 2,975 • Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd, the • The world’s first multi-million pound manufacturing companies within the headquarters for all UK based Fraunhofer International Max Planck Partnership, Glasgow City Region. research centres and the gateway to the involving five Scottish universities and STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE Fraunhofer network was established in five prestigious Max Planck Institutes • A new Glasgow City Innovation District is bringing together the development of Scotland’s advanced manufacturing and life • Manufacturing companies generate £3.5 Glasgow in 2012. The first UK Fraunhofer in Germany, is of major importance in government, industry and academia to harness and build upon a sciences sectors, providing support for businesses of all sizes and billion in GVA and a turnover of over £10.1 research centre, the Fraunhofer Centre enhancing Scotland and Glasgow’s base of research expertise, industry engagement and a pipeline connecting all of Scotland’s universities and colleges. billion (Scottish Government’s Businesses in for Applied Photonics was established reputation as a world leader in the of high-quality, work-ready graduates. Phase 1 of the Glasgow Scotland Release/Scottish Annual Business at the same time at the University of development of new quantum technologies City Innovation District has seen the creation of two purpose-built • The £65m National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland will be Statistics). Strathclyde to develop the UK’s most and fundamental science in Scotland. buildings: the £13m ‘inovo’, and the University of Strathclyde’s £89m an industry-led international centre of manufacturing expertise. innovative research to a stage where Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), acting as a hub for around Research, industry and the public sector will work together to it can be adopted by industry. • The Scottish Research Partnership 450 renewables engineers and project managers, and 850 energy transform skills, productivity and innovation, attracting investment in Engineering (SRPE), a collaboration academics and researchers. and making Scotland a global leader in advanced manufacturing. • Underlining Glasgow’s strong offer in between three regional university centres the photonics industry is the University in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee to • The TIC building is a hub for world-leading research, transforming • A new £56m state-of-the-art Medicines Manufacturing Innovation of Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics, enable focused access to large-scale, high the way academics, business, industry and the public sector Centre (MMIC) will be established over the next three years. MMIC established in 1995 as a commercially quality experimental facilities representing collaborate. The centre works to find solutions to challenges will accelerate development of a new generation of manufacturing focused research partnership major capital investment in equipment that matter in areas of economic importance, including power processes for the UK’s pharmaceutical and fine chemical industry. between the university, industry and such as hydrodynamics tanks, structural and energy, health and manufacturing, and helping companies It will be led by the Centre of Process Innovation in partnership with government specialising in advanced test facilities and nano-fabrication units. compete globally. inovo is a dedicated space offering Grade A office the University of Strathclyde, the Medicines Manufacturing Industry laser engineering, photonic materials accommodation. Major companies already based within the TIC, Partnership, and founding industry partners, AstraZeneca and GSK. and devices and neurophotonics. include the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, SSE and Scottish Power/Iberdrola. • The new £9m Lightweight Manufacturing Centre is set to transform • The £10m Centre for Sensors & Imaging the manufacturing industry in Scotland. Run by the University of Systems (CENSIS) based at the University • The Digital Design Studio at the world renowned Glasgow School of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre, this specialist of Glasgow is a key part of the developing Art is a postgraduate research and commercial centre that exploits centre gives Scottish companies a competitive edge in new innovation landscape in Scotland. CENSIS the interface between science, technology and the arts to explore manufacturing processes for lightweight materials such as enable industry innovators and university imaginative and novel uses of 3D digital visualisation and interaction titanium and carbon fibre, which are increasingly being used in the researchers to collaborate at the forefront technologies. aerospace, automotive, oil and gas and renewables industries. of market-focused sensors and imaging systems innovation, developing products • The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland, near • Glasgow’s Power Networks Demonstration Centre (PNDC) is an and services for global markets. Glasgow Airport, will be an internationally recognised centre for internationally recognised smart grid acceleration facility that utilises innovation, research and manufacturing in Scotland’s industrial innovative systems testing capability and research to de-risk grid • The Scottish Centre of Excellence in heartland and home to two new national innovation centres, the technologies and ready them for deployment on power networks. Satellite Applications is innovating for a National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland and the Medicines better world empowered by satellites and Advanced Forming Research Centre Manufacturing Innovation Centre which will be the catalyst for ENGINEERING, DESIGN AND ADVANCED MANUFACTURING INVEST GLASGOW
STRATEGIC INTERNATIONAL LOCATION • Glasgow has a rich heritage and strong track-record in the field of • Glasgow is Scotland’s main transport hub, with excellent road, rail, engineering, design and advanced manufacturing and is renowned shipping and air services. The city is easily accessible from 3 airports as an international centre of excellence. serving over 150 worldwide destinations with Glasgow Airport only 15 minutes away from the city centre. • Glasgow is the only metropolitan area in Scotland. The population of the greater Glasgow conurbation is around 2.3m, accounting for • As a designated assisted area, Glasgow qualifies for Regional 43% of the country’s entire population. Selective Assistance, a discretionary grant towards capital and/ or revenue costs of new business projects in Scotland – usually • Glasgow is one of the top performing cities for attracting FDI, ranked between 20-30% of total costs. number 6 in the UK in 2018 (outside London).
COST-EFFECTIVE AND AN EXCELLENT QUALITY OF LIFE
• Out of 20 major cities across the UK, Glasgow offers young professionals the highest level of disposable income Fraunhofer Gesellschaft is Europe’s (CV Library 2018). largest provider of applied research and • Significant labour and property costs savings compared to development services. In 2012 Fraunhofer Edinburgh, Manchester and South East England. UK Research Ltd was created along with the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics in • Glasgow is the 19th most millennial friendly city in the world, and 3rd in the UK (Nestpick Millennial Cities Index 2018). Glasgow. The location is ideal, partnering with the excellent applied science and engineering • Glasgow is the 12th most ‘Hipster’ city in Europe (Movehub of the University of Strathclyde, state of the Hipster Index 2018). art facilities in the Technology and Innovation
• Great Natural Beauty – the archipelago of the Clyde Coast and Centre, excellent communications links with Islands and the Highlands’ stunning scenery is on the city’s the rest of the UK, and access to a highly doorstep, just 45 minutes away. skilled and educated workforce. Fraunhofer CAP has grown beyond expectations and • Glasgow ranks in the top 25% of cities globally for social cohesion, well ahead of the established world cities of London is delivering prototype lasers, and sensing and Paris (IESE Cities in Motion Index 2018). and imaging systems, building many links between businesses in Glasgow to Germany • The Finnieston area of Glasgow was named one of the top 10 and well beyond. places to live in Scotland in 2018 and the hippest place to live in Britain in 2016 (Sunday Times). Simon Andrews, Executive Director, Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd
STRONG ECOSYSTEM OF BUSINESS INCENTIVES AND SUPPORT
• Investment incentives (Regional Selective Assistance, • Access to partners and networks Venture Capital Fund and Equity Funding) • Access to Scottish research capabilities • R&D and innovation grants • Investment advice • T ax incentives including Tax Credits and Patent Box (pay up to 56% less corporation tax) • Business development support
• Lowest corporation tax rate of the G20 countries • Staffing and recruitment support and subsidies
• Location and property advice • Dedicated aftercare and account management
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