Five Things
Five things you didn't know about... Glasgow (And if you did, keep telling people who don’t know about them!)
1. There are 200,000 students in the region There are over 200,000 students studying and researching at the universities in the Glasgow region. The Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde rank within the UK’s 50 leading research universities. Glasgow is the only UK city with two
universities ranked in the Global Top 300, out of over 25,000 world universities. Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of West of Scotland are leading national institutions in Scotland. These universities have already had success at spinning out firms. Almost a third of Scotland’s university spin-out companies originate in Glasgow’s universities. Glasgow School of Art, the oldest art school in the UK, ranks in the top eight globally for art and design. Glasgow’s further education offering is also competitive and the city has a higher number of colleges per resident compared to large cities such as Manchester and Birmingham.
2. A centre for life science jobs Glasgow is a centre for life and bio-science employment. Universities in Scotland produce 5,000 first degree life sciences graduates per year, which fuels Glasgow’s ability to carry out biotechnology R&D and the design and manufacture of advanced pharmaceutical devices.
3. Glasgow has three Innovation Districts Glasgow region has three strongly emerging Innovation Districts: AMIDS (Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland)
in Renfrewshire, Glasgow City Innovation District, a hub based around Strathclyde University’s Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), and GRID (Glasgow Riverside Innovation District), which is situated around University of Glasgow and its links with the South Glasgow Hospital Campus, the largest hospital campus in Western Europe. All have the attributes needed to bring innovation and jobs to the city.
4. The city is a magnet for start-ups Around 7,000 new businesses start up in the city region each year. The National
Manufacturing Institute for Scotland provides support for manufacturing businesses and connects all of Scotland’s engineering universities and colleges. The Lightweight Manufacturing Centre and the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre help to drive R&D of manufacturing technologies and support the aerospace and automotive industries. Glasgow makes more satellites than any other place outside of Silicon Valley.
5.Glasgow is a world-leader in finance Glasgow is a leading global financial hub and has consolidated its status as a global top 50 financial centre whose reputation among professionals is disproportionately strong compared to its size. Very few other cities of Glasgow’s size anywhere in the world are recognised as financial hubs. The only other secondary/tertiary cities of a similar size are Calgary (42nd) and Wellington, New Zealand (45th). Glasgow now sits alongside more established world cities (over 2.5 million in metropolitan population), or capital cities, not smaller secondary cities, for its financial performance. In the latest edition of the Global Financial Centres Index, Glasgow is surprisingly ahead of established and significantly larger European business hubs and capitals, including Vienna (51st), Madrid (53rd), Brussels (54th) and Milan (56th).
Source: Towards a Business Story for Glasgow; The Business of Cities. Greg Clark, Tim Moonen, Jake Nunley and Boran Gille, 2018.
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