Women are taking on a growing share of leadership roles across Scottish business, reshaping boardrooms and founding companies in sectors from technology to professional services. The shift reflects sustained effort by organisations and networks working to widen access to senior positions. Mentorship programmes, founder networks and a stronger pipeline of talent have…
Scotland’s startup scene has matured into a genuine engine of entrepreneurial energy, with founders across technology, life sciences and clean energy building…
Edinburgh has long been one of the United Kingdom’s most important financial centres, and recent activity suggests the city is strengthening that…
Scotland’s offshore wind sector continues to attract substantial investment, cementing the country’s position as a leader in renewable energy within the United…
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Scotland’s artificial intelligence strategy stretches to 2031, and its ambition is to…
The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on…
The most consequential part of Scotland’s technology ambitions is not the research funding or the launch events. It is the unglamorous work of getting ordinary businesses to actually use the tools already available. Adoption, rather than invention, is increasingly where the country’s…
Global markets spent the middle of August weighing a familiar mix of central bank signalling, corporate results, and the slow drip of…
Reading the global economy in the middle of 2026 means holding several contradictory truths at once. Growth in the major economies has…
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Scotland has unveiled a five-year national strategy for artificial intelligence, setting out an ambition to position the country as a leader in…
In a landmark deal within the fast-food industry, Peter Cancro, the billionaire founder and CEO of…
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Scotland’s artificial intelligence strategy stretches to 2031, and its ambition is to move the country from an interested observer of the technology…
The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on genuinely difficult science. Deep-tech…
The most consequential part of Scotland’s technology ambitions is not the research funding or the launch…
Scotland has set a number against its artificial intelligence ambitions, and it is a large one.…
The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on genuinely difficult science. Deep-tech…
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Women are taking on a growing share of leadership roles across Scottish business, reshaping boardrooms and founding companies in sectors from technology…
Scotland’s startup scene has matured into a genuine engine of entrepreneurial energy, with founders across technology, life sciences and clean energy building…
Edinburgh has long been one of the United Kingdom’s most important financial centres, and recent activity suggests the city is strengthening that…
Scotland’s offshore wind sector continues to attract substantial investment, cementing the country’s position as a leader in renewable energy within the United…
For all its success in producing talented graduates and founders, Scotland has long faced a stubborn problem: too many of its brightest…
Some of the most interesting young founders in Scotland are working on problems that will not produce a marketable product for years.…
Scotland has spent years talking about building an entrepreneurial economy. Increasingly, its young founders are turning that talk into companies. From the…
Behind every Scottish football season runs a harder story than the one told on the pitch, the story of how clubs survive…
For Edinburgh’s football supporters, the early weeks of a new Scottish Premiership season carry a particular charge. The capital’s clubs are pursuing…
The Scottish Premiership’s 2026-27 season is under way, and with it the familiar rhythms of a competition that combines fierce local rivalry…
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Every Edinburgh Fringe produces a handful of shows that break out of the thousands on offer to become…
Theatre may lend the Edinburgh Fringe its prestige, but comedy is what fills its rooms. Year after year…
Alongside the sprawling Fringe runs a quieter, more curated counterpart. The Edinburgh International Festival gathers some of the…
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Scotland’s artificial intelligence strategy stretches to 2031, and its ambition is to move the country from an interested…
The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on genuinely difficult science. Deep-tech founders face…
The most consequential part of Scotland’s technology ambitions is not the research funding or the launch events. It…
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Global markets spent the middle of August weighing a familiar mix of central bank signalling, corporate results, and…
Reading the global economy in the middle of 2026 means holding several contradictory truths at once. Growth in…
Away from the headlines, one of the most consequential shifts in the global economy is the steady realignment…