Businesses in Scotland are embracing opportunities
Despite the political and economic uncertainties of the past year, the Scottish business community has continued to push forward, showing resilience in the face of challenge. On the positive side,…
Building Scotland’s digital future – a powerful story we can tell together
I recently had the opportunity to address an audience containing many of the Scottish IT industry’s leading professionals as keynote speaker at ScotlandIS’ 2017 ScotSoft conference. I was inspired by…
Purpose HR in series of client wins on Scottish tech scene
Purpose HR, which provides HR as a service to high growth technology companies, has secured a series of recent client wins including fashion shopping app, Mallzee, training software specialist, Administrate…
Edinburgh-based Lingo24 opens Netherlands office
Lingo24, the Edinburgh tech-enabled translation company, has opened a Branch Office in the Netherlands, taking its total number of offices around the world to 6. The move follows growth, particularly…
Dundee Aerospace engineering company transitions to employee ownership
STAR-Dundee, a world leading provider of spacecraft on-board data handling network technology for the aerospace industry, recently completed its transition to employee ownership. STAR-Dundee is an aerospace engineering company which…
Edinburgh’s tourism boost as industry players join forces to address challenges
More than 120 people gathered for the first stage of The Edinburgh Tourism Innovation Challenge (ETIC), which culminated at the weekend. The #ETIC17 event was the first of three stages in the…
Training programme launched for ambitious Scottish start-ups
Shoal, founded by Michael Cockburn and Steven Jeans, is a Scottish tech platform for start-ups and small businesses in Scotland to collaborate, share work space and support each other in…
Funding available for remote access to sensitive data
The University of St Andrews has been granted £1.5 million from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to create and manage a new Micro Safe Settings Network (MSSN) to…
Teams work over the weekend on Edinburgh Tourism Innovation Challenge
Fifteen inter-disciplinary teams have combined to improve Edinburgh’s expanding tourism sector at the Edinburgh Tourism Innovation Challenge. They worked over the weekend analysing datasets, conducting market research, coding, and running…
Edinburgh tourism innovation challenge launches
A hackathon aimed at creating innovations to improve Edinburgh’s growing tourism sector was launched last night, hosted by Product Forge, The Data Lab, Scottish Enterprise, Edinburgh Tourism Action Group, and…