Category: Enterprise & Innovation

The £1.3 billion ‘city deal’ powering economic growth for Edinburgh and the south-east of Scotland has been credited with creating 30,000 jobs. The deal, which launched in 2018, is at the...

Budding founders are being encouraged to join the latest cohort of Techscaler – the national tech startup accelerator programme. The Scottish Government’s flagship startup creation and development scheme – delivered...

Scotland could be the site of the UK’s first ‘games supercluster’ according to a new plan which aims to build a £1 billion video-gaming powerhouse industry. The Scottish Games Network...

A new First Minister’s Start Up Challenge is to aim to help young people from underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds to become entrepreneurs. The government scheme will empower young people aged...

Scotland’s technology trade organisation has described the lack of ‘targeted support’ for the tech sector as ‘disappointing’ following yesterday’s Budget. ScotlandIS, which represents the interests of over 1,000 digital technology...

Scotland’s tech trade body has delivered a mixed response to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget, saying new investment pledges offer “some grounds for optimism” but warning that tax decisions and economic...

Edinburgh’s data driven innovation (DDI) programme – a government-supported initiative to drive regional growth in new high growth industries – has scooped a top economic development award. Led by the...

A new business report has highlighted the need to provide better support mechanisms for companies in Scotland to grow to globally significant size and scale. Overcoming investment challenges, ‘red tape’,...

A hairstylist turned tech entrepreneur scooped a Scottish Women in Technology (SWiT) award last night at a glitzy Glasgow ceremony celebrating the achievements of women in the industry. Tracey Aitken,...

Three priorities have been outlined by Scotland’s chief entrepreneur to increase the number of scale-up companies in the country. Ana Stewart, a businesswoman and investor, has signalled that she would...