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Businesses encouraged to go international

New joint venture leads to formation of new life sciences spin-out company

Gaia-Wind and renewable energy provider Myriad CEG Power have today signed a £5m plus contract to provide almost 200 Gaia-Wind 133-11kW small wind turbines for installation in England and Wales, over the next twelve months. The announcement comes just weeks after Gaia-Wind won the prestigious Scottish Renewables Green Energy Award for business growth and will create job opportunities in both companies as well as the service and supply chain.

The UK Government today confirmed that the UK-wide consortium bid from Ocean Energy Innovation, Carbon Trust and the National Renewable Energy Centre (Narec), has been selected to set up the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, a £50 million technology innovation project funded by the Technology Strategy Board.

Scottish Enterprise has worked intensively leading the Ocean Energy Innovation faction of the consortium and is delighted to welcome the news that the headquarter function of the Catapult will be located within its flagship International Technology and Renewable Energy Zone in Glasgow.

Edinburgh BioQuarter’s £24 million bio-incubator and multi-occupancy building, known as Nine, has secured its first tenant – Edinburgh-based life sciences company, Fios Genomics.

Leading Scottish tourism businesses and event organisers, which collectively reach over 13 million visitors each year, have experienced an eight per cent increase in turnover and seven per cent increase in sales per visitor over the last 12 months thanks to a new national food and drink project, called Experiencing Scotland.

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