£36.9 million funding for two complementary projects, with private sector investment of £71 million.

The Region is a world-leader in satellite manufacturing. In fact, after California, Glasgow City Region is the largest supplier of small satellites in the world, with around 30 companies in the industry.

IZ funding for the Spacecraft Manufacturing and Testing Centre will boost the build of new rockets in GCR and subsequently provide additional launch capacity for more rockets to go into space, many of which carry satellites.

By offering advanced manufacturing services, cutting-edge additive manufacturing technologies, and state-of-the-art equipment rental, this project strengthens GCR’s space and aerospace sectors

The PRISM project, a collaboration of 20 local partners organisations, will vastly enhance our capacity to manufacture satellites and accelerate the volume of satellites produced in the Region.

Focused on accelerating innovation, prototyping, and manufacturing for small satellite technology, Initiative will support GCR to continue to be at the heart of the UK’s thriving space sector.

£65.9 million for three projects with private sector investment of £125 million.

At the forefront of semiconductor innovation, the Laser Supply Chain and Advanced Packaging project, led by the University of Glasgow, supports the growth of this cluster by creating an industry led semiconductor laser prototyping and commercialisation centre and a world leading prototyping capability in advanced packaging.

The new National Centre for Advanced Semiconductor Packaging, led by the University of Strathclyde, will establish a national centre for manufacturing scale up of advanced semiconductor devices such as photonics and power electronics. It will enable manufacturing at scale, allowing companies to grow and collaborate to create a local supply chain and develop an open-access scale-up facility.

The Advanced Manufacturing Capacity for Sensor Technology, led by Neuranics, is designed to further bolster the expansion of this thriving cluster by establishing an industry-led semiconductor sensor technology and commercialisation capability focused on magnetic sensing.

£20 million funding for one project with private sector investment of £67.4 million.

Building on Glasgow’s maritime heritage, the Maritime Supply Chain Innovation Centre emphasises advancing the rapid adoption of decarbonisation technologies among maritime SMEs.

Open-access facilities and shared resources ensure these benefits extend across the supply chain, creating wider economic benefits throughout the economy.