STREAM 2: A placed-based IAA in Photonic Technologies in Scotland's Central Belt

光子技术（PT）在20世纪世纪的最后几十年成熟，与电子和信息技术一起，PT支撑着现代社会的经济繁荣和福祉。许多光子学对用户来说是隐藏的，但在高速光通信、集成电路制造、平板显示器、光子传感和制造以及医学和生命科学中的无数应用中发挥着重要和无处不在的作用。PT的全球市场在2021年达到7220亿美元，英国光子产业的营业额为145亿英镑，员工人数为77，000人（是制药业的两倍，比金融科技或航天业更大），贡献了8.5万英镑的GVA/员工。PT是英国唯一一个在新冠肺炎疫情期间保持GVA和就业增长的行业。苏格兰的中央地带（SCB）--从西部的克莱德到东部的福斯--是苏格兰的经济中心，但仍然承受着上世纪80年代去工业化的社会和经济创伤。许多地区的生产力水平较低，因此缺乏高价值的工作意味着中部地带的许多社区遭受严重的贫困和不良的社会后果。在苏格兰工业最近喜忧参半的情况下，光子技术已经成为一个成功的故事。半个多世纪以来，SCB的大学和行业一直处于光子技术研究和创新的前沿。今天，SCB因其在光子学方面的实力而获得全球认可，这个成熟的研究和创新集群为苏格兰经济贡献了超过10亿英镑。但是，光子学在SCB中的经济和社会影响的全部潜力尚未实现。我们提出了一个光子技术的PBIAA，将充分利用光子学的学术卓越，以加速PT行业的增长，为苏格兰中部地区的经济和社会效益服务。我们将为苏格兰技术部的目标做出重大贡献，使SBC的光电产业价值增加两倍，达到30亿英镑以上，并使英国能够增加其在不断增长的全球光电市场中的份额。我们与公民合作伙伴合作，制定了一项四年计划，共同努力加速增长：1）通过创业和公司创建以及让现有公司参与相关领域，发展PT经济和PT公司（例如电子、制造业），尚未利用技术培训的好处2）通过扩大技术培训熟练人员的基础，使集群不受所有技能水平的熟练员工的限制3）提高公众对PT的认识，特别是SCB PT行业的主导作用;我们的大部分活动将围绕基于项目的大学研究发展，以支持和降低大学风险，开发技术，使其对工业开发具有吸引力。从事这些项目的研究人员将获得指导和创业培训，并将有机会参加员工流动计划，以增加和多样化澳大利亚-大学的互动为了培养年轻人和公众的热情和技能，为蓬勃发展的PT行业提供所需的高技能人才，我们将设计和推出一项雄心勃勃的新计划，与格拉斯哥科学公众参与。年轻人将了解光子学的重要性和兴奋与PT职业机会一起苏格兰。我们将特别鼓励更多的女孩和妇女，以及来自其他代表性不足的群体和社会背景的人，参与PT的科学，技术和职业。

Photonic Technologies (PT) came of age in the final decades of the 20th century, and together with electronics and information technology, PT underpins the economic prosperity and well-being of modern society. Much of photonics is hidden to the user but plays an essential and ubiquitous role: for example in high-speed optical communication; fabrication of integrated circuits; flat-panel displays; photonic sensing and manufacture; and a myriad of applications in medicine and the life sciences. The global market for PT reached $722bn in 2021 and the UK photonics industry has a turnover of £14.5bn, employs 77,000 people (twice as many as pharmaceuticals, and larger than fintech or the space industry), contributing £85k of GVA/employee. PT is the only sector in the UK to have maintained growth in GVA and in employment during the covid-19 pandemic.Scotland's Central Belt (SCB) - from the Clyde in the west to the Forth in the east - is the economic heart of Scotland, but still bears social and economic scars of 1980s deindustrialization. There are significant areas with low levels of productivity, and a consequent lack of high-value jobs means that many communities across the Central Belt suffer from high deprivation and poor social outcomes. Photonic Technologies has emerged as a success story in the recent mixed fortunes of Scottish industry. For more than half a century, the universities and industries of SCB have been at the forefront of research and innovation in Photonic Technologies. Today, SCB is recognized globally for its strength in photonics, and this established research and innovation cluster contributes more than £1bn to the Scottish economy. But, the full potential of photonics for economic and societal impact in SCB has not yet been achieved. We propose a PBIAA in Photonics Technology that will fully harness academic excellence in photonics to accelerate growth of the PT sector for the economic and societal benefits in Scotland's Central Belt. We will make a major contribution to the Technology Scotland goal to triple the value of the photonics industry in SBC to >£3bn and enable the UK to increase its share of the growing global photonics market.Working with our civic partners we have developed a four-year plan to work together to accelerate growth:1) by growing the PT economy and PT companies through entrepreneurship and company creation and engaging existing companies in related fields (e.g. electronics, manufacturing), that have not yet exploited the benefits of PT2) by growing the base of people skilled in PT so that the cluster is not limited by availability of skilled employees throughout all skill levels3) by increasing the public's awareness of PT and in particular the leading role of SCB PT industries; and to increase enthusiasm for PT entrepreneurialism within Scottish schools.Much of our activity will be based around project-based development of university research to support and de-risk university-developed technologies so that they are attractive for exploitation by industry. Researchers working on these programmes will receive mentorship and entrepreneurial training and will have access to staff-mobility programmes to increase and diversify academia-university interactions To develop the enthusiasm and skills among young people and the public that underpin the supply of high-skilled people required for a thriving PT industry, we will design and launch an ambitious new program of public engagement with the Glasgow Science. Young people will learn about the importance and excitement of photonics together with PT career opportunities Scotland. We will particularly encourage more girls and women, and those from other under-represented groups and social backgrounds, to engage in the science, technology and careers in PT.