The creative and digital industries around the UK are thriving and Liverpool is playing a key role in their growth. Today, Liverpool has the second fastest growing digital cluster in the UK – creative and digital industries in the Liverpool City Region employ around 19,000 people in 3,500 companies, many of them based in the Baltic Triangle.

Liverpool is a hotbed of innovation and creativity. We’re a world renowned centre for culture; a Unesco ‘Music City’, a destination for world class events and our cultural calendar draws millions of visitors annually from around the world. We have produced and sold millions of computer games from the city, and created award-winning productions for TV and cinema. Businesses within the creative and digital sector have shipped products and services around the world to clients that include Disney, Sony, BBC, Virgin Media, Vodafone, LinkedIn, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google and Amazon.

Creative minds here are working on pioneering solutions in supercomputing, virtual and augmented reality, the Internet of Things, sensors, big data and advanced robotics, that will change the planet, and the lives of everyone that lives on it. And the future will be enabled by the fastest supercomputer in the UK.

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