building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
The Scottish Government digital strategy, launched in 2011, set out a vision for Scotland to become a world-class digital nation by 2020. Five years on, significant progress has been made in many of the areas outlined in that strategy but
We welcome the Chancellor’s announcement of a National Productivity Investment Fund worth £23bn, including an additional £2 billion per year for R&D in artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies to catalyse the commercialisation of innovative ideas. Digital technologies are drivers
I joined ScotlandIS in April to develop an in-house research and policy unit for the benefit of our members. Having just completed the first six month in post, I would like to share an overview of the work I am
FreeAgent, the Edinburgh-based accounting software company, has revealed plans to float on the stock market. It will join the Alternative Investment Market next month through a placing of shares with institutional investors. No values or details of the sum to
Five of Scotland’s leading cyber experts will come together to talk at a forthcoming event in Glasgow’s Google Garage on the heightened risk of security breaches to the digital technologies industry. The evening is hosted by Scottish digital technologies trade
MANY Scottish firms’ already great fears about their continued ability to employ the overseas workers they need will have intensified significantly within the last fortnight, as the Conservatives have signalled an alarmingly strong appetite for “hard Brexit”. Companies operating in
An exceptional student from Robert Gordon’s University has been named Young Software Engineer of the Year 2016. Stuart Whitehead won first prize for an innovative project developing a software platform for internet of things (IoT) applications. The judge considered the project to
Key players in Scotland’s digital technologies industry will gather in Edinburgh tomorrow (Thursday 6 October) to ask what it takes to build a global business and stay agile while scaling for growth. The issues will be debated as part of
Polly Purvis, chief executive of ScotlandIS, the trade body for the digital technologies industry in Scotland, tells BQ why we need to talk more about tech… From cyber security to software development and big data, Scotland is a leading player
Scotland’s Digital Xtra Fund launched in May 2016 and awarded £250,000 to 12 projects, which expect to reach a combined total of 10,500 young people across the country by March 2017. An additional £150,000 has now been made available in
