Entrepreneurship

Scotland is witnessing a steady decline in entrepreneurial confidence, with a notable fall in youth entrepreneurship and a diminished interest in entrepreneurship as a career path, a new report has revealed.  The survey for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2022/23 report, carried out by rese

With £1.5 million in available funding, Scottish Edge has launched its newest round and invites applications from businesses in Scotland across all sectors, and from pre-trading to up to five years trading.

A 10-person cohort of Scottish entrepreneurs selected to travel to Helsinki, Finland next month for a programme of activities including attendance at the Finnish capital’s annual Slush tech conference has been announced. The 10-person cohort selected is: Christian Arno of Pawprint; Cally Russe

Two Glasgow-based entrepreneurs have revealed plans to bring world cinema to Scotland and the wider UK, after buying the rights to two critically acclaimed international films in their first distribution deals. After securing initial seed investment, Jen Davies and Graham Fulton set up Con

Maggie Hicks, founder of SynSense, and Xiaoyan Ma, founder of Danu Robotics, plant a Hawthorn tree on University of Edinburgh’s King’s Buildings campus to mark the 100+ startups supported by Edinburgh Innovations over the last year Student startups from the University of Edinburgh have s

Glasgow’s west end will be home to Scotland’s first specialist 'Pastelaria' bakery after it received a £40,000 loan. The Portuguese-style bakery, 'Pastéis Lisboa', run by entrepreneurial couple Emma Airley and Sebastian Bacewicz, is opening this week on Byres Road.

A University of Glasgow spinout which aims to create more effective methods of treating lung diseases has secured a £1m grant from Innovate UK.The award will help the Acu-Flow team and their research partners advance the development of their nebuliser technology, which uses an innovative surfa

The keynote speakers for this year's Engage Invest Exploit (EIE22) have been announced. The lineup consists of Scotland and the UK's top tech luminaries - Scotland’s chief entrepreneur Mark Logan, Women in Enterprise Review chair Ana Stewart, and newly appointed techUK president Sheila Flavell

The University of Edinburgh has awarded a total of £500,000 to five student and graduate start-ups. The newly founded businesses are celebrating after securing almost half a million pounds in grant funding awards between them. The five young companies, all supported by the University’s c

Puresport has launched a £1 million crowdfunding campaign as it targets expansion in retail and overseas markets. The Scottish wellness brand, founded in 2018 by rugby player Grayson Hart, has passed £3.5m in online sales this year. Puresport's business focuses on brain function-boosting

A Scottish boutique hotel, No. 17 The Promenade, has reopened under its new owner, unveiling a grand renovation.

Edinburgh-based company Codebase has been awarded a contract worth up to £42 million to establish seven new tech scaler hubs across Scotland. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced the Tech Scaler contract, which is one of the largest investments by the Scottish Government into Scotland

A competition hosted by the University of Strathclyde's entrepreneurship programme had students and alumni's start-ups stake their claims for funding.

TechHUB, a part of the Northern Innovation Hub (NIH), has secured £3.2 million from HIE to create a food and drink techonolgy centre. The funding includes £1.2m from the UK government as part of Inverness and Highland City-Region Deal.

Mark Logan has been appointed chief entrepreneur for Scotland as part of the national strategy for economic transformation. The new role's focus is to embed entrepreneurship in the economy, and that partnerships with industry and investors are prioritised and strengthened.