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SRUC senior lecturer Hadi Aliki (left) and Jim Fairlie MSP at the launch of the SRUC Vertical Farming Innovation Centre.

Scottish education first as college fires up £1.8 million ‘vertical farm’
“The centre enhances SRUC’s ability to address the major challenges facing the world, both now and in the future” – Professor Wayne Powell, SRUC
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In a speech at University College London this week, Keir Starmer set out his plan to us AI to drive economic growth and improve public services (Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA pool)

Why Labour faces war with left-leaning writers over threat posed by AI John McLellan

Alistair Cameron, chief executive of Kelso-based Scotmas Group.

Why this Scottish firm's water tech matters - £2.2m for global expansion

Fintech - financial technology - development has accelerated as more of us embrace digital banking and use apps to manage a range of services such as savings, investments and pensions.

How Scotland’s fintech boom is leading innovation and creating thousands of jobs

The Scotcoin Project's chief executive Temple Melville. Picture by Jeff Holmes

Scottish cryptocurrency eyes ‘more equitable world’ with imminent £200m listing

Tech

Stellar Omada managing director and founder Colin Frame. Picture by Stewart Attwood

Digital education to talent - how Stellar Omada is driving Scottish tech boom

Morrisons has launched the Morrisons Clinic online private prescription service in partnership with Scottish firm Phlo.

Skip the GP wait - supermarket clinic to deliver prescriptions to your door

Founded in 1992, Archangels is a business angel syndicate investing in early-stage Scottish life sciences and technology companies. Pictured are Niki McKenzie, David Ovens, Dan McKiddie, Sarah Hardy and Shaolei McKie.

Edinburgh's Archangels helps propel Scottish start-ups with £27.3m investments

Praveen Ashok, Dave Hughes, and Melissa Hartley at Novosound's new HQ at BioCity in Glasgow. Picture by Stewart Attwood

Scots firm behind blood pressure monitoring tech outlines 2025 growth plans

Start up Scale up

Darren Auld, Lisa Thomson and Paul Duffy of ClearSky Logic, which is headquartered in Edinburgh with an additional operation in Glasgow.

'Special ops' Scottish tech firm unveils top hire and growth plans for 2025

The FSB said entrepreneurship provides many people with a path to financial freedom and independence.

New Year plea to get 500,000 more Brits to become their own boss

Mark Beaumont, partner at Eos; Jessica Birt, CEO and co-founder; Dr Matthew Dale, CSO and co-founder, Professor David Venables, chair of board; Professor Susan Rosser, chair of scientific advisory board. Picture by Stewart Attwood / Canva

How Edinburgh pioneer behind 'holy grail' gene therapy technology raised £3m

More than two dozen businesses were created every day in Glasgow during the first half of 2024

Top spots for new companies in 2024 revealed and one city stands out

Innovators

Voxblock, the screen-free Scottish audiobook business looks set to quadruple sales this Christmas as it reports record growth throughout 2024

Kid's screen-free audiobook pioneer Voxblock prepares for festive boom

Novosound CEO and co-founder Dave Hughes (pictured centre) with the firm's ultrasound blood pressure monitor. Picture by Stewart Attwood

Wearable blood pressure monitors could be revolutionised by Scots tech firm

The HUID start-up is creating compostable packaging, using onion waste – nature’s own form of packaging.

How a Scottish onion eco start-up aims to tackle the plastic waste crisis

Meet the ‘living pillow’ robot that Scots tech firm says can help end loneliness

Big Ideas

Heriot-Watt PhD students Arran Sykes and Harmony Li in conversation regarding a quantum sensing system. Picture: Chris Watt Photography/Heriot-Watt University

How a Scottish university is developing the 'near unhackable' quantum internet

'We're just scratching the surface with this, so the potential for growth is there,' says Greenock of Go Swag. Picture: contributed.

How this entrepreneur aims to turn gift boxes into the next Scottish unicorn

The grand front entrance of the new Edinburgh Futures Institute, the result of a major 'recycling' project which has transformed the historical Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh building into a state-of-the-art innovation hub and public space

Inside story: Look what happened to Edinburgh’s grand old Royal Infirmary

Researchers have been conducting virtual-reality and real-life tests to assess the best way of communicating to cyclists the intentions of self-driving vehicles

How can cyclists avoid crashes with driverless cars?

Data

Karen Meechan, the ScotlandIS chief executive, pictured at the ScotSoft conference in 2023. Picture: Greg Macvean

Scotland’s digital tech leader on how to grow a £7.5 billion industry

Murray Collins is one of the founders of Edinburgh's Space Intelligence. Picture: Andrea Thomson Photography

Edinburgh firm that maps the world's forests from space eyes new horizons

The University of Edinburgh has been at the forefront of supercomputing for decades.

Axed: £800m Edinburgh University supercomputer victim of Labour spending cuts

The growth in fintech comes as more and more of us switch to digital banking to manage a range of services such as savings, investments and pensions.

FinTech Scotland Festival: Where and what is taking place in 2024

FinTech

Sandy Begbie is the chief executive of Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). Picture by Graham Flack

How Scotland’s crucial financial services sector added 13,000 jobs in 2024

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Halo Invest, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sydney-headquartered fintech venture Halo Technologies, is pressing the button on a new Glasgow base.

Australian fintech to set up Glasgow base and create 60 jobs

Ad Feature Sept forum brings together leaders in financial services security

Life Sciences

Ad Feature Glasgow is home to new precision medicine hub

The new Edinburgh-based Centre of Excellence will also use virtual reality to train in laboratory skills.

£4.5 million Edinburgh skills project will boost life sciences sector and NHS

'The geographical spread of this investment round reflects the global opportunity for MI:RNA to deploy our platform for better outcomes for pets,' says the firm's boss Eve Hanks. Picture: contributed.

Diagnostics firm nets global funding injection to boost animal health

From left: Anthony Harford, head of business development at Heriot-Watt; Mark Cook, chair of both the ABHI and Scottish Brain Sciences; and Michelle Beukes, business development manager at Heriot-Watt. Picture: contributed.

How this new tie-up aims to accelerate cutting-edge medical research

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