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The Digital Xtra Fund, a charity fostering digital skills among the youth in Scotland, has announced its commitment of £110,000 to fund 26 tech and coding clubs.

Twenty innovative start-ups have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme aimed at developing and commercialising academic entrepreneurship.

Three spinout projects from the University of Dundee with the potential to deliver significant healthcare benefits have received more than £250,000 from Scottish Enterprise to support their development. Softech received funding via Scottish Enterprise’s in-year High Growth Spin-out Progr

Scottish ice cream brand Equi’s has launched four Equi’s flavours into 67 Tesco stores across Scotland. The deal represents a major step forward in Equi’s Ice Cream's growth journey, dramatically increasing its reach to Scots, bringing its premium ice cream to more consumers across

Representatives from 22 companies across Scotland’s offshore wind supply chain presented their innovative products to a panel of international buyers at a showcase event organised by Scottish Enterprise that took place in Edinburgh last week. The two-day event called ‘22 Innovations&rsqu

Equity investment into Scottish companies rose by almost a third to over £1 billion last year, even though the number of deals increased by less than 1%, a new report has shown. The figures suggest investors are becoming more selective and refining their focus with fewer but larger deals and m

DataVita’s site in North Lanarkshire has been designated a UK AI Growth Zone, unlocking £8.2 billion private investment for the region – one of the largest technology commitments in Scottish history. The project brings together three integrated components: 500MW of AI-ready data ce

Scottish Enterprise has appointed Nicola Anderson as its new director of scaling innovation. Ms Anderson will lead Scottish Enterprise’s Scaling Innovation Mission, focused on helping ambitious Scottish companies grow faster and translate cutting-edge research and development into globally com

A £2.2 million project led by the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has so far supported 90 organisations and upskilled 250 people to explore how data science and artificial intelligence (AI) can boost productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness across Scotland’s manufa

HM Revenue & Customs' (HMRC) sophisticated "big data" system, known as Connect, has been credited with generating an additional £4.6 billion in tax revenue during the 2024-25 financial year. This figure, revealed in a freedom of information request made by Pinsent Masons, represents a 35%

Tesla's board of directors has unveiled an unprecedented new pay package for CEO Elon Musk, potentially worth close to $1 trillion (c. £750m), in a bid to secure his long-term leadership. The proposal, which will be put to a shareholder vote, would grant Musk up to 423.7 million additional sha

As it celebrates 20 years of driving business–academic innovation, Interface has secured a double commitment from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). A new three-year funding agreement, running from August 2025 to July 2028, enables Interface to continue connecting businesses with the expertis

Paul Weller, musician and former frontman of The Jam and the Style Council, has launched legal action against his former accountants after they resigned because he publicly accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. Mr Weller was a client of Leigh Genis of Harris and Trotter LLP for more than 30 years, unt

Nearly one in six inward investment projects in the UK last year were secured in Scotland, according to new data published by EY.

Scotland’s biotechnology sector is celebrating a major milestone with the launch of the nation’s first open-access 300-litre fermenter – a state-of-the-art piece of equipment that will support early-stage companies to develop bio-based products at scale. Located at FlexBIO, the Ind