building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
£38 million for high growth companies A comprehensive package of support for innovative early stage businesses whose routes to investment and growth have been impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19) has been announced by Economy Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The £38m package, managed
Good afternoon Minister,Ref:Email below.Whilst we welcome the publication of the report from the Advisory Group on Economic recovery, we are dismayed that there was little engagement with the SME community and the digital technology industry. We note the report references SMEs only
My first month in post as Research and Policy Manager has been a busy but rewarding period! The month of June has seen the formation of our Cross-Sectoral Digital Steering Group, which will meet for the first time in July.
Tech will play an “important part” in the UK’s economic recovery, the Digital Secretary revealed. Support for ‘grassroots’ tech ecosystems will be a key focus of the UK Government’s upcoming digital strategy, according to Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden. Speaking at the
The digital secretary Oliver Dowden is set to launch a new digital strategy positioning the tech sector at the heart of the UK’s economic recovery following the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the virtual UK Tech Cluster Group conference today (23 June), Dowden
The First Minister today outlined a four-phase route map to ease Scotland out of current lockdown measures, proposed to start on 28th May 2020. Below we have detailed some of the key points your business needs to be aware of
ScotlandIS welcomes news today (Thursday 7th May) of the Scottish Government’s plan to invest £5 million for internet connections, training and support, and a laptop or tablet, to vulnerable people who are not already online during the response to coronavirus
Over the last five to six weeks various members of the team have spoken to many of you. We’ve asked you to complete surveys, to help with various campaigns and initiatives, to feedback what’s happening in your businesses and met
A lot has changed since my last update at the beginning of March when most of us where probably aware of the coronavirus but didn’t expect more than 10,000 people in the UK to have died from it six weeks
After a multitude of announcements on Covid-19 public health measures and support schemes for businesses, the self-employed and workers in the first few weeks of the crisis, it is much quieter in that space at the moment. That is why
