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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…
Most infrastructure projects end with a ribbon and a photograph. Edinburgh’s North Bridge restoration has ended with an exhibition. “Study for North Bridge,” running at the City Art Centre until mid-September, treats the eight-year repair as a subject worth examining rather than…
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…
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…
Edinburgh’s North Bridge has reopened to full use this month, closing an eight-year restoration that ran dramatically over its original budget. What began with a £12 million estimate ended at a projected £86 million, roughly seven times the initial figure, in one…
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…
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…
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…
For most of the year Edinburgh is a working city that happens to be beautiful. For a few weeks in August it becomes something else entirely, a stage that has swallowed its own streets. Knowing how to move through the city in…
For eight years the people of Edinburgh have lived around a wound in the middle of their city. North Bridge, the 130-year-old span linking the Old Town and the New, has spent nearly a decade wrapped in scaffolding and hemmed by restrictions.…
