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Following approval from Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, the proposal for a Screen Unit within Creative Scotland, presenting a more collaborative inter-agency approach and clear leadership on public sector interventions and support for Scotland’s screen sector is published today by Creative Scotland.

Location announced for centre of excellence

A Stirling-based company is to benefit from one of the largest investments in Scottish engineering and manufacturing in recent years, doubling its capacity and creating new jobs on the site.

Industry body Subsea UK in partnership with Scottish Enterprise has today announced that it has opened an R&D funding call for innovation projects to drive forward research and development projects between Scotland and Japan that will help solve the industry’s most complex technological challenges.

UK eCommerce analytics company, E Fundamentals, is to invest in a new development hub in Edinburgh, which will be the London-based technology company’s second office. The move is creating 26 new jobs and being supported by Regional Selective Assistance support from Scottish Enterprise of £320,000 as part of the total investment of £2.5m.

Scottish business owners, Duncan and Vicki McConchie from Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries & Galloway today (Thursday 30 November) officially opened their £1.9 million investment project, GG’s Yard, a ‘Rural Venue of Excellence’.

A major new evaluation examining the impact of international trade and investment support delivered by Scottish Development International (SDI) between 2012/13 and 2015/16 has found a significant economic return for both trade and inward investment activity and that many companies would not have entered export markets or invested in Scotland without that support.

Map publisher plots transition to employee ownership

A new dynamic Scottish ports directory aimed at the energy industry has been launched today (21 November).

Bird.i, a startup which collates and disseminates the world’s best satellite, airborne and drone imagery in real-time to provide insights and data to global businesses, has closed a $2.6 million investment round.

A new £9.2m fund launches today to drive more business innovation in Scotland by encouraging businesses to collaborate with Scotland’s public sector to develop innovative solutions to societal challenges.

The Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, will today tell a group of high profile international venture capital fund managers that Scotland is the UK’s most vibrant location for risk capital investment outside the ‘Golden Triangle’ of London, the South East and the East of England, at an event co-hosted with the European Investment Fund (EIF) at Scotland House in London.