With a global ranked research-intensive University and a plethora of creatives and knowledge-based businesses, Reading is an innovative place to do business. Investment Monitor ranks Reading 5th in the UK for innovation.
Reading has been named the third-largest digital technology city in the UK with Aim, data, cybersecurity, fintech, and IoT at its core. Global players such as Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Huawei and Symantec are all based here but Reading also has a strong start up culture and Tech Nation has assessed Reading as having a density of tech companies seven times greater than the national average.
Climate research, drone technology, new film studios and technology and green energy developments are just a few of the innovations taking place in Reading.
- With construction of a new HQ for the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts at the University by 2024, the University of Reading's Whiteknights campus will become home to the largest cluster of weather and climate scientists in the world.
- The film production industry is growing at an amazing pace in Reading and the largest green screen in UK has just opened at Winnersh Triangle business park to add to new studio space at the University of Reading’s Cine Valley.
- Drone technology corridors are being developed by Reading based business, Altitude Angel.
- Reading Hydro CBS was formally opened this summer and the two reverse archimedes screw turbines located by Caversham Weir are now officially operational and generating clean, sustainable energy for the benefit of the Reading community.
Altitude Angel
ECMWF at University of Reading
