Business Case / IT & Digital
IT & Digital
Improvements in communications technology now mean that IT businesses can easily be located anywhere in the UK. Operating in high cost, high wage, polluted and unattractive urban locations is no longer necessary, and many IT companies have already discovered that York & North Yorkshire is an outstanding place to do business.
Yorkshire and the Humber is home to one of the country’s fastest growing digital industries generating nearly £3bn for the region’s economy and employing nearly 80,000 people. The digital industries cluster is expected to grow by nearly two thirds by 2012.
North Yorkshire offers four key assets for IT & Digital companies:
- A highly skilled, specialist workforce, which is regularly topped up by graduates of the areas higher education establishments
- An outstanding quality of life to attract and retain high-calibre personnel
- Excellent infrastructure, with superb connections to London, Scotland and beyond
- Top ranking higher educational institutes with IT specialisms, such as, the University of York, with its 6* rated Department of Computer Science.
The University of York underpins the IT & Digital cluster, with world-class Departments of Computer Science and Electronics, which produce over 200 graduates a year and maintains an excellent track record of collaboration with national and international companies.
The University of Hull's Scarborough Campus hosts the Centre for Internet Computing, the UK's first centre specifically devoted to Internet applications of computer science
In addition, Selby College has been one of the first to be identified as a Centre of Vocational Excellence for ICT by UK Government, and Darlington College at Catterick is now very firmly positioned as the UK's most advanced computer-based learning centre.
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