Devolved Scotland needs devolved broadcasting
IT SEEMS the devolution settlement is not yet quite fixed in concrete, maybe it never will be. However, the fact that responsibility for...
Twilight for a Maxwell publishing scam?
ROBERT MAXWELL, the media tycoon who dropped off his yacht in 1991 after raiding his company’s pension funds, has had an influence well...
Second-rate management skills let many boffins down
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH funding was one of the big winners in Chancellor Brown's spending statement this year. UK Government spend on science...
Dream team brings back hard experience
THE INSTALLATION of Michael Grade and Mark Thompson as chairman and director general respectively of the BBC has attracted a lot of...
Give us back our in-boxes
ANNIVERSARIES of technological breakthroughs are regularly celebrated, but some developments are less welcome than others. One...
Finish the job - and make it fast
IT WAS ALL GOING to be so wonderful by now. In the late 90s we were told that broadband would arrive soon and we would be able to put an...
We’ve missed our connections
Compare it to – well, almost anywhere. Why does Scotland still suffer such poor transport infrastructure? SOUTH KOREA'S news that its...
Capturing your life in a petabyte
THE YEAR THAT INSIDER was born was also a landmark year for the information industry. In 1984 the modern personal computer was born when...
Filling the cracks of doom
We face a stark future unless we can attract skilled immigrants to boost our falling population, WHAT HAS Wendy Alexander been up to...
A hard act to follow
The attacks on Robert Crawford have been quite disgraceful, says Ian Ritchie. FOUR YEARS AGO, Scottish Enterprise was an organisation...
Bring on the risk-takers
Ian Ritchie speculates that it’s the risk-averse nature of university researchers which stalls spin-outs DESPITE SOME HYSTERICAL media...
Academic greed hinders creation of strong industry
Universities should encourage spinouts rather than demand a large slice of the pie ONE OF THE paradoxes of modem Scotland is both the...
Time to create something of value – and finish it
Criticising the parliament building budget is wrong: we need more projects like it WHEN THE EDINBURGH International Conference Centre was...
Driven to despair as millions from ‘our’ smash hit go west
The next global blockbuster highlights another missed chance for Scottish talent AS YOU MIGHT already know, this week sees the launch of...
Treasury tips the balance sheets to its advantage
Don’t pin all the blame for the market depression on the technology sector collapse NOW THAT WE FIND ourselves in the biggest slump in...
No surprise as enterprising idea comes under attack
BT should rise to the challenge of a Scottish telecommunications trading exchange THERE MAY BE LOTS of uncertainty around in the world...
A few home truths on how to bring out the best in us
Many Scots just lack the right career opportunities to realise their full potential SOME TIME AGO, the Canadians ran a competition to...
Americans yet to come to terms with a changed world
Military firepower has been boosted, but not the vital information intelligence services THIS TIME last year we were all still trying to...