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Next generation

Entrepreneurial Scotland bolsters team with double director hire

New hires: Sean McGrath and Sara Cook Entrepreneurial Scotland (ES), the business education and membership organisation, has appointed two directors to strengthen its senior management team. Sara Cook has beenRead More

Tycoon urges change of policy

McColl warns against ‘half-cooked’ national investment bank

Jim McColl
Scottish business leader Jim McColl today warned against setting up a national investment bank which was "half-cooked".

Growth firms targeted

19 firms sign on for Scale-Up challenge

Bob Keiller with Scale-up recruits
Nineteen Scottish firms have been chosen to take part in an ambitious scheme designed to help their growth plans.

As I See It

Barclays puts scale-up community on alert

Terry smiling
Is there a looming crisis in funding next stage companies? New figures from Barclays tell us that the number of high-growth companies is shrinking and that investors have become a little shy about providing support...

Scale-up Summit

‘Go for growth’ is message from Summit leaders

Mark Hogarth
Scotland's small businesses were today urged to move into 'scale-up' phase by business leaders, from traditional to modern, keen to pass on their experiences...

Programme to build companies

Scale-up initiative aims to boost growth

Tom Hunter at Scottish Edge
An initiative aimed at helping companies scale-up will launch next month at an annual gathering of entrepreneurs...