Toshiba to create 100 Scottish high tech jobs
Toshiba, the Japanese electronics giant, last night unveiled plans to create 100 jobs in Edinburgh over the next three years as it pumps £15.5 million into its medical scanning business. Scottish Enterprise has awarded the company a £3m research and development (R&D) grant.
The firm is setting up a centre in the Scottish capital that will develop ways of using computers to analyse images taken by medical scanners as part of efforts to diagnose diseases. The work will build on Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems (TMVS), which was set up in 2009 when the group bought the advanced visualisation imaging division of Barco, which had been setup by Edinburgh University graduates in 1995,
Toshiba - which will initially create 26 jobs at the centre, before ramping up to 100 over the next three years - expects the Edinburgh facility to become one of its top centres globally.
TMVS president Fredric Friedberg praised the links between Scotland's
universities and industry and cited the pool of "top talent" as being
among his reasons for siting the centre in Edinburgh.
SE chief executive Lena Wilson said "The fact that Toshiba is establishing this new centre in Scotland is further proof that Scotland can compete with the best in the world."
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