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Agency blasted for underspend

MSPs attack Scottish Enterprise for failing to back businesses

Scottish Enterprise logo
Scottish Enterprise has been criticised by a Holyrood committee for failing to spend its budget on supporting growth businesses. Despite having £10 million to spend in the first year ofRead More

Firms urged to apply

Start-ups offered free space at Business School

Business incubator EBS
Kallum Russell (second right), with intake of start-ups (pic: contributed)   Edinburgh Business School is inviting start-ups and small businesses to apply for a year’s free space in fully equippedRead More

Seven figure investment

Thomson’s Inverleith backs hemp based food firm

Ben Thomson
Inverleith, the Edinburgh-based private equity firm chaired by Ben Thomson, has taken a majority stake in a food and drink brand making products from hemp seed.

Recruiter heads south

Dragon-backed hire firm opens London office

Andrew Welsh
Meraki Talent, the Scottish recruitment agency backed by former Dragons' Den panelist James Caan, has opened an office in London

New project unveiled

Leisure park owner expands into St Andrews

Lodge
Stewarts Leisure Parks, owner and operator of three holiday parks in Perthshire and Angus, has announced its most ambitious project yet – a new park in St Andrews. 

Lift for Canon Medical research

Funding supports AI in tackling killer disease

Gillian Docherty at Datafest17 - 2
Medical researchers in Scotland have received funding to support the use of artificial intelligence to tackle a killer disease.

Businesses promote wares

Social enterprises put on a show for garden visitors

Eden Jewellery
Visitors to Edinburgh's Princes St Gardens are being invited to sample produce from Scotland's social enterprise community.

Pilot scheme taps into talent

Ex-Number 10 adviser gets military wives back to work

Sarah Stone
A former Downing Street adviser has launched a project in Scotland to help the partners of military personnel use their skills and set up businesses 

Duke performs opening

Incubator launched at Edinburgh Business School

Heather McGregor and Duke of York
Nine start-up businesses have become the first to move into Edinburgh Business School's new Business Incubator.

Duke of York programme winners

Pitch perfect for three Scottish companies

Dr Blaise Potard, Co-Founder and CTO of Dialexy, Mónica Camino, CEO of Dialexy, Michael Harkins, Founder & CEO of Turtle Pack, Alison Wood, Director and Founder of Lilypads
A fun swimming aid for children, a translation technologies company and a student-led social enterprise providing affordable reusable sanitary pads in rural Kenya were named the