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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…
Scotland has spent years talking about building an entrepreneurial economy. Increasingly, its young founders are turning that talk into companies. From the university spinouts of Edinburgh and Glasgow to ventures emerging well beyond the central belt, a generation of Scottish entrepreneurs in…
Away from the headlines, one of the most consequential shifts in the global economy is the steady realignment of trade. Companies and countries are rewiring the routes along which goods and capital move, a slow reordering that will shape economic life for…
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 perennial ambition of the well-supported side outside the Glasgow duopoly, hoping this is the year their resources and their…
Global markets spent the middle of August weighing a familiar mix of central bank signalling, corporate results, and the slow drip of economic data that shapes sentiment through the quieter summer months. The picture that emerged was one of caution rather than…
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 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 Scottish Premiership’s 2026-27 season is under way, and with it the familiar rhythms of a competition that combines fierce local rivalry with the constant financial pressure of trying to compete on a European stage from a small domestic base. The opening…
Scotland has spent years talking about building an entrepreneurial economy. Increasingly, the leadership question is whether it can reach the country’s youngest founders early enough to keep their ambitions, and eventually their companies, at home. Programmes aimed at first-time entrepreneurs have become…
Behind every Scottish football season runs a harder story than the one told on the pitch, the story of how clubs survive in one of European football’s more financially exposed leagues. As the new season builds, the commercial realities shaping the Scottish…
