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Global Innovation and Technology Centre

Where we turn ideas into reality

Our Global Innovation and Technology Centre in Cambridge UK, is the heart of PA’s international network of creative studios, research labs and engineering centres. It’s where we turn ingenious ideas into physical and digital reality.

From medical devices to manufacturing equipment, from consumer products to digital experiences, the GITC is where we create, prototype, test,  and build technology-based solutions to our clients' most important challenges.

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10,000 square meters
of design studios, scientific laboratories, and engineering workshops
300 experts
scientists, designers, engineers, and technologists
40,000 inventions
delivered across industry, government, and defence

End-to-end expertise

We're driven by a desire to make a real impact through tangible innovation. And our team's diverse range of skills and cross-sector experience enables us to deliver this faster and more effectively for our clients.

Human insight
Understanding and exploiting the complex interplay between consumers, brands, and the physical and digital worlds they inhabit is critical to business success. We conduct strategic market research and analyse wide ranges of data to reframe problems, uncover user needs, and articulate business opportunities. We test and prove product concepts and unify teams around a shared vision for the future.
Product design and engineering
Design has always been about envisioning exceptional products. And now, at a time when the speed and quality of innovation is critical to business success, design can offer so much more. By amplifying design with science and engineering, we conceive and deliver ingenious new products, services and experiences, driving innovation further, faster.
Manufacturing process innovation
From cutting costs to embracing new technologies or producing new-to-world products, we help global organisations reinvent their manufacturing capability. As the world redefines supply chains globally, we find and integrate enhancements to ensure your manufacturing processes evolve to meet the challenge.
Digital and data applications
To thrive in the future, organisations need to continuously adapt and turn uncertainty into opportunity. We help you harness the full potential of data and connectivity—gathering and analysing more relevant data, harnessing machine learning and AI to drive competitiveness and growth, and developing multi-channel digital experiences to meet complex ecosystem needs.
Technology and innovation management
We make sure your organisation is designed to deliver incremental and breakthrough innovation. We’ll help you align innovation to business strategy, improve research and development effectiveness, reduce time to market, and deliver a roadmap for the technologies you should develop, acquire, protect, and evolve.
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How Things Work

In this video series, our experts discuss some of the world’s most innovative technologies, explaining how they work and how they will help to create a positive human future.
How Things Work: Direct Air Capture
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How Things Work: Direct Air Capture

See how Direct Air Capture, one of the most scalable and permanent carbon capture solutions, works in practice.
How Things Work: Direct Air Capture
Design for Sustainability
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How Things Work: Design for sustainability

See how to Design for sustainability in our How Things Work video from our Global Innovation and Technology Centre.
Design for Sustainability
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How Things Work: Quantum navigation

Quantum technology eliminates vulnerabilities to global navigation satellite systems and ensures zero drift – meaning it can locate and navigate vehicles with pinpoint accuracy in any environment. It could even protect from accidental and malicious attack.
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How Things Work: Cell and gene therapy

Cell and gene therapies are a new class of treatments that can teach our bodies how to fight specific diseases or restore lost functions. They’re exciting because they have potential to beat life-challenging conditions.

Life at GITC

Caren Lacy
Insight

15 minutes with: Caren Lacy

Caren is helping drive the sustainable energy transition: from renewable technologies to innovative uses of hydrogen.
Caren Lacy
Iris Alting
Insight

15 minutes with: Iris Alting

Iris helps clients and partner organisations tackle some of the most urgent climate challenges
Iris Alting
Penlon ventilator
In the media

And breathe… Innovation lessons from an ‘impossible’ challenge

PA’s Frazer Bennett talks to Management Today about innovation
Penlon ventilator
Insight

15 minutes with: Richard Claridge

Richard works on everything from 3D-printed chocolate to quantum sensors and thrives on asking ‘What if?’.
Innovate everyday at PA Consulting Our Design Engineering & Science consultants talk about the variety of projects you can be involved in at PA Consulting.
Take a 360-degree tour of GITC Join Frazer Bennett, our Chief Innovation Officer, on a 360-degree tour of our design studios, laboratories and engineering workshops. Click, hold and drag your cursor across the video, or pan your phone, to explore every part of our 10,000 square-metre Centre.

Client stories

Johnnie Walker
Client Story

Johnnie Walker

Trialling a paper-based bottle to push the boundaries of sustainable packaging innovation
Johnnie Walker
Client Story

Mondelēz International

Aiming for long-term net zero carbon goals by accelerating new products and technologies
many electronic dots
Client Story

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

Keeping people safe by harnessing quantum computing
many electronic dots
Dizzie
Client Story

Dizzie

Unlocking the reuse and refill potential of consumer packaging
Dizzie
Client Story

UK Vaccine Taskforce

Steering a world-leading programme to secure COVID-19 vaccines in record time
Client Story

Ori Biotech

Revolutionising cell and gene therapy manufacturing
Client Story

Office for Zero Emission Vehicles

Using the power of design to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission road transport
Client Story

Dunnet Bay Distillers

Developing lightweight recyclable packaging for a craft spirits company

A global community

We’re an integrated team spanning across our headquarters in London, UK, our Global Innovation and Technology Centre in Cambridge, UK, our US studios in San Francisco and Boston, and our Dublin studio in Ireland. 

Wherever you go, you’ll meet people passionate about tackling tough innovation challenges through design, engineering, and technology.

Daniela Aguilera
Sara Urasini
Catherine Hildersley
Norio Fujikawa
Carys Lloyd

We’re not only looking for innovative ways of doing research, but also how we recruit people within the industry. We’re making an effort to diversify the pool.””

Daniela Aguilera Human insights
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We don’t work in siloes. We acquire and grow our expertise from healthcare to consumer electronics to others, creating a cross pollination of knowledge.””

Sara Urasini Design
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Ultimately, the focus of my role entails solving problems and making something better. This might be improving the efficiency of a production process, creating a new product to make people smile, or designing a surgical tool to save people’s lives.””

Catherine Hildersley Engineering
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As designers, we’re rooted in a desire to be creative, and find creative solutions to problems. We’re delivering experiences for others, based on our own life experiences.””

Norio Fujikawa Design
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We have seen first-hand that a purposeful internship programme inspires innovation. Ideas generated by young people have led to tangible products and services which continue to shape our world.””

Carys Lloyd Technology and innovation
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Get in touch to discuss how you could make use of our centres

We look forward to hearing from you.
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