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04/03/2010
Scottish Enterprise seeks more companies of scale to grow Scotland’s economy
Developing more companies with a turnover in excess of £100 million is key to improving Scotland’s economic performance. That’s the view of Scottish Enterprise, who today hosted an event with some of Scotland’s most ambitious companies to help them identify how to scale up their business and cre...
18/02/2010
SaltireFoundation Patron Mark Beaumont Completes his Americas Challenge
World record breaker and Patron of the SaltireFoundation Mark Beaumont has completed his Cycling Americas Challenge. For the last 9 months he has been cycling from Anchorage, Alaska to Ushuaia in Southern Argentina. Following the line of the mountain ranges which form the American Cordillera and ...
11/02/2010
LifeSciencesDinner 2010
GlobalScot and Life Sciences entrepreneur, Jim Reid, has won the award for Outstanding Contribution to the Growth of Life Sciences in Scotland at the Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Annual Dinner 2010. The award was presented at the Scottish Enterprise annual dinner in Edinburgh on Thursday 4th...
05/02/2010
Scotland is top UK choice for global jobseekers
Scotland leads the way in the UK as the destination of choice for people looking to relocate from around the world. According to a recent survey, of the 1600 respondents polled from America, Africa, the European Union and Asia, 58 percent selected Scotland as their top choice location to live...
01/02/2010
The 2010 Saltire Fellowship - Open for applications
Each year the SaltireFoundation awards 20 Fellowships. Our objective is to find, fuel and spark Scotland's human potential, in turn creating our next generation of business leaders. The Saltire Fellowship is a world-class, year long programme that fast-tracks the careers of ambitious business...
20/01/2010
Digital inspirations - a strategy for scotland's digital media industry
Scotland's Digital Media Industry Advisory Group, chaired by GlobalScot Stuart Cosgrove, has launched its strategy for the sector in Scotland through the launch of its website, www.digitalinspiration.org.uk The industry strategy is ambitious and argues for a step-change in Scotland's engagem...
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17/12/2009
Odyssey bring jobs to Glasgow
Odyssey Financial Technologies, a world leading wealth and asset management software solutions company is to open its new Centre of Excellence for Software Development in Glasgow. Odyssey specialises in software for private banking, private wealth management and asset management firms. The com...
11/12/2009
Scotland’s Chemical Sciences Warm Up for
The Scottish chemical sciences sector is leading the UK process industries on innovation and investment in R&D according to the results of a new pilot study revealed on the 29th October. The first ever benchmarking report undertaken by the industry also highlights its value to the Scottish econo...
25/11/2009
First ever 'enabling technologies' strategy aims to boost jobs and output in Scotland
Scotland’s Technology Advisory Group has launched the country’s first ever industry-driven strategy for Enabling Technologies. The strategy focuses on technologies that underpin a number of Scotland’s key industry sectors and can help them become more productive. It aims to increase the contr...
24/11/2009
GlobalScots enjoy Scottish Thistle Awards 2009
The Scottish Thistle Awards, which are among the most coveted accolades in the tourism industry, celebrate quality and innovation across a range of categories. The awards are widely recognised as the mark of excellence and professionalism across the industry, awarding businesses contribution to m...
23/11/2009
'Oyster' device connects to Grid
First Minister Alex Salmond switched on the world's largest working hydro-electric wave energy device today, connecting Aquamarine Power's 'Oyster' device, off the Orkney Islands, to the National Grid. Mr Salmond also announced new funding of £975,000 to help deliver 'Oyster 2', involving thre...
16/11/2009
Scottish Biotech Firm Brings Unique Drug Profiling Services to US Pharma
Fast growing Scottish life sciences company, Sistemic Ltd, is expanding its services to encompass the worldwide biotech and pharma markets by establishing a new facility in the States. The new company, which started trading less than a year ago, offers proprietary services to the biotechnology ...
03/11/2009
Nexxus – Connecting and communicating life sciences in Scotland
Nexxus, central Scotland’s network for life scientists, was launched in September 2003 with the aim of promoting and supporting research excellence, innovation and knowledge transfer within the life science community in the West of Scotland. In the summer of 2008, Nexxus was successful in achie...
30/06/2009
GlobalScot Makes Business Success in Poland Possible
Martin Oxley, a new Warsaw-based GlobalScot recently hosted two days of seminars and 1-2-1 meetings with Scottish companies on ‘Doing Business In Poland’. Martin is a multilingual international business director who has spent the last 20 years working in a number of leadership roles in the blu...
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24/06/2009
Scotland Powers China's Green Energy Revolution
Developing its own renewable resources has helped Scotland become a global leader in clean-energy technologies. Now China is benefitting from that expertise. Glasgow-based SgurrEnergy is the latest Scottish renewable energy company to have a major presence in China with the opening of a new of...
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24/06/2009
Altran Creates Innovative Software Operation
Scotland has won an international contest as the site for an innovative software operation which could transform how companies run major projects around the world. French company Altran is making a £2 million investment in its site near Glasgow. The facility will be transformed into a high-...
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08/06/2009
GlobalScots - A success at Bio 2009
BIO is the world's largest biotechnology event and took place in Atlanta, Georgia from 18 - 21 May. It attracted over 14,500 individuals from countries all over the world and Scottish Development International's Scottish Pavilion played host to over 25 Scottish companies who were promoting and ex...
07/06/2009
Turning Research Into Reality
A new partnership between scientists and academics was launched on the 17th June at Surgeons Hall in Edinburgh by the Health and Finance Secretaries. The partnership will create around 250 cutting-edge research jobs and cement Scotland’s reputation as a world leader in life sciences. The launch ...
08/05/2009
GlobalScot Appointed as Head of Invest Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Government announced the appointment of Mr Simon Galpin as the Director-General of Investment Promotion, following an open-and-in-service recruitment exercise. Mr Galpin will take up the appointment on April 9. In welcoming Mr Galpin's appointment, the Secretary for the Civil Se...
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08/05/2009
GlobalScot International Conference
Scotland Needs You! The 2009 GlobalScot International Conference will take place on Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 November at Glasgow’s Hilton Hotel. This event will bring together influential global business leaders and entrepreneurs with some of Scotland’s most talented and ambitious businesse...
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