Founder of Hive Instinct (Hiveinstinct.com), I am an experienced writer and journalists, having written thousands of stories across a range of industries.
Edinburgh has long been one of the United Kingdom’s most important financial centres, and recent activity suggests the city is strengthening that position. Asset management, banking and a growing cluster of fintech firms continue to anchor a sector that employs tens of…
Scotland’s offshore wind sector continues to attract substantial investment, cementing the country’s position as a leader in renewable energy within the United Kingdom. Its long coastline and strong, consistent winds have made Scottish waters some of the most sought-after in Europe for…
Scotland’s startup scene has matured into a genuine engine of entrepreneurial energy, with founders across technology, life sciences and clean energy building companies with ambitions well beyond national borders. The growth reflects both a supportive ecosystem and a generation of leaders determined…
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…
While Edinburgh fills with festivalgoers each August, much of Scotland offers the opposite experience, a landscape at its most generous and least crowded. For those willing to leave the capital’s noise behind, late summer is one of the finest times to see…
Every August, a city of half a million people takes on a role far larger than its size. Edinburgh’s overlapping festivals turn the Scottish capital into one of the busiest cultural gatherings on earth, a transformation so complete that the ordinary city…
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…
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…
The businesses doing the heaviest lifting in Scotland’s economy are rarely the ones making headlines. Analysis from BDO points again to the country’s mid-market firms, the companies too large to be startups and too modest to dominate the news, as the sustained…
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…
