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GLASGOW BUSINESS JUNE 2015


CHIEF EXECUTIVE


Stuart Patrick, Chief Executive chiefexecutive@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


Our future industries


I am sure that everybody is now aware of two major investments in the city that have already opened for businesses, even if they have not had their official openings. They are key parts of a new story for Glasgow in building the advanced industries of the future. As Bruce Katz of the Brookings


Institute has shown, where there are cities that have academic research and development, innovation and a high level of productivity, that is increasingly where advanced industries are being located. Those advanced industries in the US are now being focused on a smaller number of major cities and they are prime movers of regional and national economic competitiveness there. The two investments opening in Glasgow suggest that it has every reason to be confident about being a city that shares those characteristics.


The two developments are, of course, the


opening of the University of Strathclyde’s Technology & Innovation Centre and the South Glasgow University Hospital.


The Hospital houses clinicians, academics and businesses in what is going to be one of the largest critical care centres in Europe. It will also host the ground-breaking Centre for Stratified Medicine, which could change the way that healthcare is conducted, creating a more personalised


form of medicine. The centre will be using Scottish


Funding Council resources and, we hope, those of the UK Government’s Department of Business Industry and Skills to expand its academic, clinical and commercial


opportunities for Scotland to grow its position in stratified or personalised medicine. The centre has moved from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s facility at Inchinnan. It will host some


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truly innovative businesses, including Aridhia, David Sibbald’s health informatics company, as well as Thermo Fisher. At the same time Strathclyde University is opening the Technology & Innovation Centre, housing academic and commercial collaborative research activities such as the Weir Advanced Research Centre and the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics. It will look at a variety of topics, such as energy systems, future cities and advanced pharmaceuticals, but the really interesting thing is that it’s doing innovation in a different way. In the same way that the stratified medicine


centre is bringing together existing business and academics to tackle practical problems, the innovation centre is also designed to encourage new forms of partnership. Instead of relying, as we have done in the past, on spinouts, valuable though they are, and commercialisation through licensing agreements, important though that is, this is an open innovations system. The university is opening its doors to business to allow them to work collaboratively on research. As a result of these amazing investments there is the beginning of two organically grown new innovation districts for Glasgow, based round these facilities. It is the start of Glasgow maturing into one of those cities that Brookings describes as a city of advanced industries.


HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION Catherine Bryson ~ 0141 204 8390 cathy.bryson@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


CHIEF EXECUTIVE Stuart Patrick ~ 0141 204 8317 stuart.patrick@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE Richard Muir ~ 0141 204 8326 richard.muir@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


PROJECTS DIRECTOR Alison McRae ~ 0141 204 8339 alison.mcrae@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


HEAD OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Elaine Rodger ~ 0141 204 8332 elaine.rodger@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGER Cathie McKay ~ 0141 204 8317 cathie.mckay@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


FINANCE MANAGER Audrey Hamilton ~ 0141 204 8334 audrey.hamilton@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS Anne Marie Hughes ~ 0141 204 8325 annemarie.hughes@glasgowchamberof commerce.com


HEAD OF PARTNERSHIP & MEMBERSHIP OPERATIONS Susan McKay ~ 0141 204 8347 susan.mckay@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


HEAD OF EVENTS Alan Busby ~ 0141 204 8323 alan.busby@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


DEVELOPING THE YOUNG WORKFORCE Leona Seaton ~ 0141 204 8338 leona.seaton@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


PROGRAMME MANAGER


DEVELOPING THE YOUNG WORKFORCE Selina Hales ~ 0141 204 8336 selina.hales@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATOR


DEVELOPING THE YOUNG WORKFORCE Shona MacPherson ~ 0141 204 8364 shona.macpherson@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP CO-ORDINATOR


DEVELOPING THE YOUNG WORKFORCE Jennifer Hood ~ 0141 204 8333 jennifer.hood@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT


PROJECTS ASSISTANT Blair Stevenson ~ 0141 204 8339 blair.stevenson@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS EXECUTIVE Colum Fraser ~ 0141 204 8319 colum.fraser@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


MEMBERSHIP CO-ORDINATOR Kamilla Biskup ~ 0141 204 8331 kamilla.biskup@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT Danielle Grant ~ 0141 204 8349 danielle.grant@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


FINANCE ASSISTANT Liz Mason ~ 0141 204 8329 liz.mason@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


CERTIFICATION EXECUTIVE Yasmin Akram ~ 0141 204 8330 yasmin.akram@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


CERTIFICATION EXECUTIVE Lorraine Galbraith ~ 0141 204 8365 lorraine.galbraith@glasgowchamberofcommerce.com


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The views within Glasgow Business do not necessarily reflect those of Glasgow Chamber. Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of material in this publication, the publishers and Glasgow Chamber of Commerce cannot accept responsibility for the claims made by contributors in advertising or editorial.


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