Entrepreneurial skills to be taught at Scottish universities and colleges
Entrepreneurial skills are set to be taught at 45 Scottish universities and colleges as part of a 10-year plan to boost business creation. First Minister Humza Yousaf launched The Entrepreneurial...
Scottish Government seeks new ‘head of cyber’
The Scottish Government has entered the recruitment market for a new ‘head of cyber’ to oversee its organisational and national cyber resilience and security functions. The £81k deputy director role...
Boost to startups as CivTech partners with nationwide ‘Techscaler’ scheme
Scotland’s tech startups working in the govtech sector will be able to access founder education services thanks to a new partnership. Techscaler, the nationwide tech startup support scheme, is to...
Business ‘how-to’ platform launched for growing Scottish tech companies
A new platform aimed at tech companies wanting to scale has been launched by Scotland’s tech trade body. ScotlandIS has set up the ‘how-to’ knowledge hub to help start-ups and growing...
Ana Stewart welcomes government adoption of Pathways review aimed at supporting female founders
A businesswoman who has spearheaded efforts to help create more female entrepreneurs has welcomed a formal government commitment to enact her plans across Scotland. Ana Stewart, co-author of the Pathways...
Scottish digital skills academy partners with New York-based Flatiron School
Scotland’s digital skills academy – CodeClan – is partnering with the New York-based Flatiron School to deliver on demand, self-paced digital courses. The New York coding and programming vocational school...
Destination St. Louis. Why Scottish tech companies might soon be beating a path to an up-and-coming US innovation ecosystem
When you think of the great tech ecosystems of the United States, it’s the Silicon Valleys and the clusters concentrated around the Ivy League universities in Boston and New York...
Tickets go on sale for Scottish Games Week
Tickets have gone on sale for Scottish Games Week – the annual festival celebrating the ecosystem for the gaming sector. The event returns for its second year from October 30...
Governments could use supercomputers to mount crisis response, say Aberdeen scientists
Governments could use supercomputers to mount crisis responses according to a team of scientists in Aberdeen. Researchers at the James Hutton Institute are exploring ways of harnessing ‘exascale’ supercomputing resources...
Glasgow AI and automation firm posts ten-fold growth figures as demand soars
A Glasgow tech firm specialising in AI and automation has posted ten-fold growth figures as demand for its services soars. VKY Intelligent Automation puts its astonishing rate of growth since...
