Chancellor launches attack on the Entrepreneur
JIM MATHER, the Scottish Government's minister for Enterprise, has declared that he wants to see more entrepreneurship in Scotland. This...
Attention over-thirties: news is now a free for all
NOBODY UNDER THIRTY these days buys a newspaper. It might seem weird to us oldies who still need our daily fix, but they just don't see...
It's time SMG put pressure on BBC
IT LOOKS like being an interesting time for Scottish broadcasting - and we've not been able to say that for quite a while. Earlier this...
Culture and economic success
THE NEW SNP administration is bringing fresh thinking to some of the established 'truths' of this country, but being a minority...
Fix skills shortages with easy access, well-funded Masters degrees
HEY, WE HAVE A PROBLEM! The economy is booming, employment is strong. Companies of all sorts are firing on all cylinders, sales are up,...
Why is an engineer's status so low?
ALTHOUGH I regard myself as mostly a businessman these days, by profession I am an engineer. We engineers have a rather high opinion of...
We must keep the Enterprise Fellowship Programme
A FEW years ago, Scottish Enterprise developed a new strategy for Scotland. In agreement with the Scottish Executive it defined the...
Here's a TV novelty: programmes made in Scotland for most Scots
IN CASE YOU haven't noticed, £l6m of public funding has just been ponied up to establish a new Gaelic TV channel. I make that £232 for...
Here's a vision for our politicians: we will become a totally carbon neutral country over 20 yea
WELL, the elections for the Scottish Parliament are looming ... and are we bored rigid yet? Maybe we shouldn't be disappointed at the...
Radical moves at Apple's core - music downloads just got cheaper
THERE SEEMS TO BE an aura surrounding Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple - a kind of 'reality distortion field' that exempts him from...
Creative Scotland: born to fail?
AT THE END OF 2003 it all looked very promising. On St Andrew's day that year, First Minister Jack McConnell made a visionary speech...
Election is time to wring fiscal concessions from the Treasury
IT IS A UNIVERSAL TRUTH that Scotland leads the pack in scientific development and innovation. Scots research universities competitively...
Learning from two contrasting big growth economies
THIS IS A TALE of two countries: China and India. Both are nations of well over one billion people each and both have been growing...
Learning to say ‘no’ and the ABCs of global management
FOR MANAGERS in technology businesses this is the season for thinking internationally. Scottish Enterprise held the inaugural Globalscot...
It takes quality and quantity to stay world beaters, Scotty
THIS IS REALLY WORRYING. Scotland might be running out of engineers. The country has a fine tradition of scientists and engineers from...
Flying’s no angel, but there are bigger C02 criminals
OF ALL THE ACTIVITIES demonised by society up there with foxhunting, harpooning whales and clubbing baby seals to death, now comes the...
Active rivalry is the lifeblood of the media
IN THE DOG-EAT-DOG world of the British media one of the great untouchables, apparently immune from all criticism, seems to be BBC Radio...
Cheap, fast and connected — the kids are in touch with the future
A DEBATE WAS HELD in the House of Lords recently, proposed by Baroness Susan Greenfield, in which their lordships worried about the...