Steve Beaumont
The University of Glasgow has received funding to create a world-leading sensor and imaging systems centre which will offer major benefits to the Scottish economy. The Scottish Funding Council has pledged £10m over the next five years to support the Innovation Centre - Sensor and Imaging Systems (IC-SIS), which will engage in industrially collaborative projects to develop new technologies and form links with industry to bring innovative products to market. 11 other Scottish universities and 22 industry partners are supporting IC-SIS from the outset. The IC-SIS is one of three Innovation Centres officially announced today (Tuesday 23 April) by First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond MSP at an event at the South Glasgow Hospitals Campus. The others are the University of Glasgow's Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre and the University of Edinburgh's Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre. IC-SIS will deliver 150 collaborative research and development projects and bring new products to market over the course of its initial funding period. Economic projections suggest an investment of £10m from SFC will encourage industry to invest in innovation; the work of the Centre could add between £374m and £596m to the Scottish economy.
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