WINDFALL ON LEITH: Forth Ports are favourites for massive Vestas wind assembly factory
Forth Ports – and the port of Leith – is the front runner for a new factory to assemble offshore wind components for a major Danish company.Leith’s harbour is Scotland’s...
A SHIFTING CBD: EY to join Baillie Gifford as Haymarket Square’s new arrivals
The glass towers in Haymarket Square – across the street from the station and the tram link to the airport – are finally emerging as the shifting heart of Edinburgh’s...
Health tech Bioliberty secures total Series A funding of £7.7m
Bioliberty — a health technology start-up spanning Edinburgh and Boston — has secured a helping hand of £7.7m over the last ten months for vital Series A funding.The company, which...
BATTERY SWITCH ON: Fidra takes lion’s share of Scotland’s £757m of investment funding
Edinburgh-based Fidra Energy — the battery energy storage system platform which secured a mighty £445m funding round — was the most significant equity investment in Scotland in the first three...
SE’s agreement with ETZ Ltd to unlock £65m of energy transition funds
Scottish Enterprise and Energy Transition Zone (ETZ Ltd), based in Aberdeen, have entered a £20m partnership to help accelerate Scotland’s energy transition.The two organisations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...
Scots tech veteran Tom Sime on look-out for cellular acquisitions
Veteran chief executive Tom Sime — at the helm of his technology company for 35 years — shows little sign of slowing down, as he looks for acquisitions to bolt...
FRENCH CONNECTION: EGIS CEO marks deal-making milestone in Edinburgh
Laurent Germain, the CEO of Egis, the global engineering company based in Paris with a footprint in Canada, United States, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, has been on a major...
NOT SO BRIGHT SPARKS: Call for action on apprenticeship as Scots funding slashed
With the ‘Electrification’ of Scotland a national priority, the leader of Scotland’s largest construction trade body has expressed his utter dismay at the Scottish Government’s continuing cut in funding for...
WOMEN IN TECH: Ann Budge reveals career secret as she joins Stellar Omada
Ann Budge, the former Heart of Midlothian football club chair, spoke about how she overcame an autocratic male leader in Scottish & Newcastle Breweries when she started her career.Speaking at...
DON’T STOP ME NOW: Women leadership in technology faces worrying dip
The 21st century’s tech revolution has empowered women to reach the top of the leadership tree. In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, a founder of Facebook and the chief operating officer at...