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Scientific innovation is helping Scotland along the road to hitting its net zero targets

Between the lines: Scottish successes lead biotech revolution

An architect's image of the new Health Innovation Hub in Govan which is due for completion in summer 2025.

Glasgow's Govan set for 'world-class' health innovation hub and new jobs

The University of Glasgow is recognised as one of the city skyline's most distinctive buildings.

Medical spin-out with potential to save millions of lives gets £4.3m injection

Mocean Energy has secured fresh investment to accelerate the commercialisation of its ground-breaking wave energy technology.

Big lift for Scottish wave pioneer looking to decarbonise offshore energy sector

Scottish Enterprise boss Adrian Gillespie has welcomed the record year 'as spin-outs are vital for Scotland’s economy'. Picture: contributed.

Scottish Enterprise notches up support of record number of academic spin-outs

The new facility is situated within Embark's West Marketgait offices in Dundee.

150 jobs in pipeline as fintech skills school launches in heart of Dundee

From left: Andrew Durkie of Eos, and Yvonne Davies and Richard Hammond of Penrhos Bio. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Cleantech firm Penrhos Bio raises seven-figure sum to speed up commercialisation

A new advanced therapy and vaccines network, supported by Scottish Enterprise and CGT Catapult, will create a forum for collaboration among the life sciences sector. Picture Phil Wilkinson / Catapult

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Ian Bartlett, process optimisation manager, Levenseat; Michael Watson, Lathallan site manager, Levenseat; Neil Gray MSP, Scottish Government wellbeing economy & fair work secretary; Angus Hamilton, managing director, Levenseat; Rhona Allison, managing director for business growth at Scottish Enterprise. Picture by Graham Clark

Recycling firm creating 50 jobs near Falkirk after multi-million investment

The firm has secured £1.72 million to scale up the production, sale, and supply of its Black Soldier Fly eggs and larvae to the insect farming sector. Picture: contributed.

Roslin's Beta Bugs nets seven-figure sum to scale eco-friendly insect offering

Tayport-based Foodmek was established in 1971 to supply processing equipment for the food and drink industry.

Fife firm established more than 50 years ago goes bust with loss of 32 jobs

Gillian Fleming of Mint Ventures, Nicola Kennedy of Heero Technologies, Kathy Kinder of The TriCapital Syndicate LLP, and Deborah Hudson of Shackleton Ventures. Picture by Phil Wilkinson

£550k in funding for 'game-changing' app aimed at cutting energy bills

From left: Mark Mountford, Victoria Mackie, Paul Reid, and Rebecca Christensen of Trickle. Picture: Stewart Attwood.

Seven-figure boost for Edinburgh-based workplace productivity start-up Trickle

From left: John McNicol, Angus Hay, Susie Fisher, and Stuart McKee. Picture: contributed.

Venture capital syndicate Kelvin Capital hails record H1 investment milestone

From left: Krucial co-founders Kevin Quillien and Allan Cannon. Picture: contributed.

Strathclyde Uni bankrolls funding rounds by scale-ups Krucial and Microplate Dx

Innovation minister Richard Lochhead, Scottish Enterprise managing director of innovation Jane Martin and Össur vice president of R&D upper limb prosthetics Hugh Gill.

Artificial limb pioneer gets boost for £2m project to develop new products

The team at Alexander (Scotland) & Co, which has been serving steel customers across central Scotland for almost 75 years.

Steel firm and accountant change hands amid surge in employee ownership trusts

Mark Gillespie, chief executive of Recycl8, with some of the firm's products.

'Springboard' funding to boost workforce at Aberdeenshire recycling pioneer

A renders of MSIP's Innovation Hub, currently under construction.

Dundee accelerator picks ten fledgling firms with power to ‘benefit the world’

The start-up is behind a food that it says can be used to create plant-based meat, fish and dairy substitutes. Picture: contributed.

Glasgow meat substitute firm Enough tucking into bumper £34m funding boost

From left: BDD board members James Keeling, Catherine Ross, Laura Gow, Stephen Brown, Carol Thomson, Jo Kelley, Clare Madden-Smith, Glen Crocker, and Howard Stevens.
Picture: Jamie Williamson.

Pharma firm BDD nets seven-figure funding injection to speed up drug development

Cytomos is an Edinburgh-based life sciences company that has developed a proprietary new approach to analysing cells and plans to scale up market-testing of its technology platform Cytomos Dielectric Spectroscopy (CDS). Picture: Mike Wilkinson

Edinburgh life sciences firm behind revolutionary tech secures £4m funding

Chris Lawrie, area director for Scotland at Bank of Scotland

Make the most of those summer opportunities - Chris Lawrie

James McLeary, an IT security expert based in Thailand, was behind a Twitter account that posted abuse to politicians. Picture: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

'Hateful online troll' part of GlobalScot programme being spoken to

The team at Skylark Lasers, which says it is leading the UK’s efforts to commercialise business-led inventions in the quantum technology market. Picture: contributed.

Ratho's Skylark Lasers beams up seven-figure funding boost from Innovate UK

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)'s new flagship facility is housed in a distinctive heather-coloured building at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland in Renfrewshire.

New hub puts Scotland on 'global map of advanced manufacturing innovation'

Tourism Business Game Changer graduates. (Picture by Michal Wachucik/Abermedia)

Tourism Business Game Changer programme graduates toast success

Rhona Bree, who joins Equity Gap from Scottish Enterprise as a senior investment and portfolio manager, with Fraser Lusty, who becomes managing director.

Edinburgh investment syndicate Equity Gap unveils shake-up at top

From left: Sir Ian Wood, Deborah O’Neil, ONE's CEO Jennifer Craw, and Richard Lochhead MSP at the ONE BioHub launch. Picture: Newsline Media.

Aberdeen's £40m landmark ONE BioHub life sciences epicentre makes official debut

Vault City co-founder Steven Smith-Hay: 'I’m really proud to say that four in every five sour beers sold in the UK comes from Vault City.'

Edinburgh sour beer maker on a mission as turnover heads towards £5m

Blockchain works by allowing digital information to be recorded and distributed across a network of computers then stored in blocks that hold sets of data and linked together through cryptography.

Blockchain tech set to add £4.5 billion to Scotland’s economy by 2030

The Matthew Algie senior management team at the green bean facility.

Historic Glasgow coffee roaster adding dozens of jobs with major investment

(L-R back row) Team members Cameron Allan, Mathew Munro, Ruaraidh Carmichael, Daryn Smith, Alan Robertson, Alan Rooke, Christina Simpson, Sandy Allan, Liz Hepburn, Dave Morrison and Tracey Valentine. (L-R front row) Louise Nowell, Graham Clark, Will Cox and Beverley Large.

Perthshire off-road driving and training centre switches to employee-ownership

A unique burrowing robot which ‘swims’ through grain bulks to ensure crops are stored more efficiently has been launched by agritech developer Crover, a new tenant of the world-leading centre for robotics and artificial intelligence the National Robotarium (National Robotarium)

Grain-surfing robot set to revolutionise crop management

Left to right: Gillian Fleming of Mint Ventures, Nicola Kennedy of Heero Technologies, Kathy Kinder of The TriCapital Syndicate LLP, and Deborah Hudson of Shackleton Ventures. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

Dundee start-up gains six-figure backing for app aimed at cutting energy bills

Artist's impression of part of the planned Lomond Banks development
Pic: Lomond Banks

'Record' 65,000 objections against Loch Lomond Flamingo Land resort plan

Auticon UK says its focus is 'recruiting and retaining talent based on identifying and playing to the strengths of the individual' - and good for businesses. Picture: Kent Smith/Hand Cranked Films Inc.

Autistic people 'face catalogue of barriers preventing entry to workforce'

Causeway Therapeutics is a spinout from the University of Glasgow.

Glasgow Uni spin-out gains £9m to work on treatment for 'neglected' tennis elbow

'We’ve seen lots of very good innovative tech companies start up and become great SMEs within Scotland,' says Ms Meechan. Picture: Greg Macvean.

Analysis: ScotlandIS boss Karen Meechan examines outlook for tech sector

The Glasgow-based medtech business has 15 staff and is expanding its network in Europe and the US. Picture: Andrew Cawley.

Blood test pioneer Dxcover secures 'significant' seven-figure funding injection

The business angel groups invested their money with co-investment coming from other private sector investors and public sector agencies. Picture: Jon Savage

Business angel investment tops record £50 million in 2022 - Linc Scotland

Kathrina Skinner (Waire Health), Mark Beaumont (Eos) and Dave Hurhangee (Waire Health). Picture: Stewart Attwood

Fife start-up secures £2m investment for device that can help ease bed blocking

PneumoWave says its remote patient-monitoring technology can assist early detection of potentially fatal conditions including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, opioid-induced respiratory depression, and paediatric respiratory monitoring. Picture: contributed.

SNIB hails role in seven-figure bankrolling of healthtech firm PneumoWave

From left: technician Richard Osborne and Professor Dragan Jovcic from the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen beside the DC circuit-breaker. Picture: contributed.

University projects net collective £150k to support renewable energy

Bayile Adeoti, founder of Glasgow-based Dechomai, a social enterprise working to empower ethnic minority women with leadership and enterprise skills, has been named one of this year’s Unsung Heroes. Picture: contributed.

Survey highlights 'magic that happens' to help early-stage Scots start-ups

Shahida Imani, CEO of Edinburgh-based Chromacity . Picture: Peter Dibdin

Edinburgh laser innovator Chromacity secures funds and names two new directors

Euan Tripp, partner at Anderson Strathern: 'Despite the uncertainty and disruption during 2022, it has been a very positive year for investment deal activity.'

Anderson Strathern 'cautiously optimistic' for 2023 after record investment year

The facility, which is set to be ready in the spring, will span 31,000 sq ft, and initially create 11 new jobs as well as safeguarding a further 14. Picture: contributed.

Aberdeenshire timber frame firm creating £4m environmentally friendly factory

Fergus Moore, Dawn Thompson, Ryan Taylor and Scott Kennedy of Revive Eco.

Glasgow start-up that recycles used coffee grounds bags £375,000 investment

Adrian Gillespie, CEO, Scottish Enterprise. Picture: Scottish Enterprise / Alan McAteer

Scottish Enterprise funding set to generate £700m of innovation activity

'We have established a close, long-term relationship with Barclays Eagle Labs... and we look forward to building on that rapport,' says AccelerateHER CEO Elizabeth Pirrie. Picture: contributed.

New partnership aims to help 40 UK female-led firms accelerate

David McElroy, CEO; Gary Loake, founder and chief science officer; Andrew Durkie, partner at Eos. Picture: Stewart Attwood

Edinburgh biotech start-up gets £2.6m injection to scale up business

The Snappy Group is formed of two businesses, Snappy Shopper and Hungrrr, providing technology services to the growing UK convenience grocery and hospitality sectors, respectively.

Scottish convenience store delivery platform bags 'seven-figure' funding deal

From left: the firm's four co-founders CTO Professor Damion Corrigan; CSO Professor Paul Hoskisson, CEO Dr Stuart Hannah, and chair Dr Poonam Malik. Picture: contributed.

Microplate Dx nets 'significant' seed funding to scale pioneering test

AccelerateHER chief executive Elizabeth Pirrie has welcomed the additional support.

Scottish Enterprise signed up as 'key partner' for AccelerateHER awards

Jan Robertson enthuses over the Scottish life sciences sector’s export potential at last week’s event. Picture: Phil Wilkinson

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