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Scottish Enterprise has launched a three-year campaign to boost the number of new recruits entering the shipbuilding and engineering industry in Scotland.

The deadline for companies planning to enter the Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards 2009 has been extended to 6 February 2009.

BNP Paribas Securities Services (‘BNP Paribas’) has announced 80 new posts for its Glasgow investment operations with the recruitment process now underway.

Scotland’s most innovative medical and pharmaceutical companies and health professionals will be honoured at the annual Scottish Enterprise Life Sciences Awards 2009 on 5 February.

Scottish Enterprise today (21 January, 2009) welcomed the announcement that Crawford Gillies is to be its new chairman.

Scotland’s flagship life sciences project, Edinburgh BioQuarter, has been given a massive financial boost with the announcement of a multi million pound commercialisation initiative funded by Scottish Enterprise and the University of Edinburgh.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) has today (15 January 2009) confirmed plans to integrate its subsidiary ITI Scotland within the agency’s wider research, commercialisation and innovation operations.

Scotland’s next generation of business leaders arrived in Boston this weekend to start an intensive year-long international programme, which aims to give them the skills and entrepreneurial drive to transform Scottish companies into global businesses of scale.

Whilst many companies are cutting back in the current economic downturn, Pearson Donaldson Properties are looking to the future and are currently developing new office accommodation at Cavalry Park in Peebles.

There is no doubt that running a business in the current economic climate is challenging. To help businesses understand the support available to meet their business challenges and capitalise on new opportunities for growth that still exist, Scottish Enterprise has today (8 January 2009) launched its ‘Now’s the time to ask’ marketing and communications campaign.

Eleanor Taylor, head of Scottish Enterprise’s Proof of Concept Programme, has been named as a joint winner of the inaugural ACES, the Academic Enterprise Awards 2008, at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden recently.

Scottish business tourism was inspired to innovate, try new things and implement changes that will help them thrive through current economic times.  Business tourism professionals from across Scotland attended Scottish Enterprise’s Business Tourism conference in Glasgow on 27 November 2008. Leading industry experts provided valuable advice to help develop and realise opportunities in the current marketplace.