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The hardest companies to build are the ones whose products depend on genuinely difficult science. Deep-tech founders face longer timelines, higher costs, and investors who often lack the patience the work demands. Techscaler’s AI Discovery programme is an attempt to give Scotland’s…
Some of the most interesting young founders in Scotland are working on problems that will not produce a marketable product for years. They are the country’s deep-tech entrepreneurs, building companies rooted in advanced science, and a growing number of them are still…
The most consequential part of any national AI plan is rarely the research funding or the flashy launch. It is the unglamorous work of getting ordinary businesses to actually use the technology. Scotland’s strategy includes an expanded AI adoption programme aimed at…
Scotland has set a number against its artificial intelligence ambitions, and it is a large one. Independent analysis tied to the country’s new five-year strategy suggests AI could add £23 billion to the economy by 2035, a figure substantial enough to reframe…
Every technology strategy eventually runs into the same constraint, the shortage of people who understand the technology well enough to lead with it. Scotland’s answer, folded into its wider AI plan, is an AI Leadership Academy designed to build that expertise where…
Governments talk endlessly about backing entrepreneurs. Rather fewer put a structured programme behind the words. Scotland’s First Minister has moved to do so with a new Start-Up Challenge aimed squarely at young founders, an attempt to turn the country’s entrepreneurial rhetoric into…
Strategies succeed or fail on the strength of the people willing to champion them, and Scotland’s push into artificial intelligence has found a determined one in Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes. She has put her weight behind a five-year plan that treats…
The latest figures from the Scottish Government describe an economy pulling in two directions at once. Output rose by 0.6 percent, a respectable enough number in a difficult climate, while unemployment climbed to its highest level in two years. Both things are…
The companies drawing the most attention in any economy are rarely the ones doing the heaviest lifting. New analysis from BDO points to Scotland’s mid-market firms, the businesses too large to be startups and too modest to make headlines, as the real…
Reading the global economy in the middle of 2026 means holding several contradictory truths at once. Growth in the major economies has proved more durable than the pessimists expected, yet the risks that dominated the previous two years have not disappeared so…
