Invest Glasgow spotlight highlights Glasgow’s role in Scotland’s Critical Technologies Supercluster

A new Why Glasgow? spotlight from Invest Glasgow is shining a light on Glasgow City Region’s role within Scotland’s Critical Technologies Supercluster (SCTS), highlighting the city’s strengths across the four critical technologies: photonics, quantum, semiconductors, and sensing & connectivity.

The publication reinforces one of the core ideas behind SCTS: that these technologies are interconnected and supported by a shared ecosystem spanning infrastructure, commercialisation pathways, specialist services, testing, validation, integration, talent, and end-user markets.

Invest Glasgow highlights the supercluster’s interrelated capabilities and the strong links between research, development, and commercialisation, showing how collaboration and ecosystem depth underpin long-term success across the city and how this impacts Scotland as a nation.

From an SCTS perspective, the feature is a strong example of external recognition for Glasgow’s depth of capability and its importance within Scotland’s wider critical technologies ecosystem. It shows how strengths in research, infrastructure, spinout activity, and supply-chain depth contribute to the broader supercluster story at a national level.

Read the report here.