Digital skills gap in small firms holding back productivity
Productivity growth in the UK will continue to stall without government and industry action to tackle a digital skills deficit in small businesses, according to new research from the Federation...
Technology centre launches £2m fund for digital and decommissioning ideas
Up to £2m is available from Scotland’s Oil & Gas Technology Centre’s in its latest two ‘calls for ideas’ on digital transformation and decommissioning launched today. The centre is looking...
Edinburgh among the best places in UK to launch a business; Barclays business index
Edinburgh is one of the best cities in the UK in which to start a business, according to Barclays’ SME Growth Factors Index, with some of the best environments for...
Scotland’s AgriTech boosted by £2m investment in digital centre of excellence
SRUC, Scotland’s rural college, is investing £2m at Highlands and Islands Enterprises’s Inverness Campus to create the Centre of Excellence for Digital Agriculture and Animal Health, combining its strengths in veterinary...
CodeClan appoints Melinda Matthews Clarkson as new chief executive
CodeClan, the UK’s first and only fully accredited digital skills academy, has appointed a former senior figure at IBM as its new chief executive as the organisation looks to build...
‘Towns and cities will need to be smarter in the way they manage growth in tourism’
What happens if you gather a roomful of entrepreneurial data scientists, analysts, designers and software engineers and hand them a trove of data that has never been released before? I’ll...
Aberdeen’s TechX to invest millions in start-ups and SMEs
TechX, a multi-million pound incubator and accelerator to help hundreds of start-ups and SMEs take their technology solutions to the oil and gas market, has been launched in Aberdeen. The...
Andy Murray invests in GoodBox and ZoomDoc
Tennis champion Andy Murray has invested in two early-stage technology startups on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. GoodBox The first is GoodBox, a company that’s hoping to disrupt the charity sector....
Leith-based online book club to champion female authors
Rare Birds Book Club is a newly launched online book club and community that operates a subscription service with a twist – each month’s book is a secret until it...
Edinburgh was the UK’s fastest growing tech hub in 2017
Developer platform Stack Overflow has today launched its Q4 Developer Ecosystem report, which takes a look at 2017’s technology trends and what’s in store for next year. Edinburgh was the...
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