ABOUT

As a hub for entrepreneurship, innovation and collaboration Glasgow City Innovation District is building on Scotland’s rich tradition of scientific excellence and industrial ingenuity. Located in the heart of Glasgow City Centre, the District is home to innovative companies and organisations. 

The University of Strathclyde is a leading international technological university based in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

Inspired by our founding principle as ‘a place of useful learning’, our mission is to make a positive difference to the lives of our students, to society and to the world.

We are a research-intensive university, committed to creating new knowledge and understanding to tackle the challenges of our times. Through our ground-breaking research, we are contributing to a better world.

In the recent Research Excellence Framework 2021, the UK Government’s system for assessing research quality, almost 90% of Strathclyde’s research was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent.

We have also redefined how we collaborate and work with industry, government and the third sector to ensure innovation and knowledge exchange are fundamental activities that deliver tangible impact.

Our Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) embodies our collaborative approach and transforms the way academics, business, industry and the public sector work in partnership and is home to a variety of organisations including the UK’s only Fraunhofer.  We’re working together to find solutions to challenges that matter in areas of economic importance.

Located adjacent to TIC is the University’s Inovo building created to encourage collaboration between businesses, key partners, and the University.  Inovo is home to a plethora of innovative organisations including three UK catapults including Offshore Renewables, High-Value Manufacturing, and Connected Places.  It is also home to four Scottish Innovation centres namely CENSIS, Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, IBioIC, and The Data Lab.

The University of Strathclyde is a founding partner of two of Scotland’s leading Innovation District’s – Glasgow City Innovation District (GCID) and the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland. The University is located within GCID’s Innovation Ecosystem which is internationally acclaimed for driving innovation to industry.

Strathclyde was named Scottish University of the Year 2024 in the inaugural Daily Mail University Guide, Sunday Times Good University Guide Scottish University of the Year 2020, Times Higher Education UK University of the Year 2019, and was awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its excellence in energy innovation in 2019, excellence in advanced manufacturing in 2021 and excellence, innovation and entrepreneurship in photonics in 2023.