At last, universities agree over spin-out goals
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / December 2024 F ORTY years ago in 1984, I had to negotiate a deal to commercialise software...
Responsible education is in our hands
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / November 2024 R ECENT YEARS have seen lots of “war on” campaigns, an odd term for things that...
Venture where angels fear to tread
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / October 2024 W HEN I WAS struggling to raise investment to fund our start-up software company...
Labour takes aim at ARCHER, cancels computer funding
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / September 6th, 2024 F ORTY YEARS AGO, in the early 1980s, the University of Edinburgh won a...
Are all inventions tagged for emigration?
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / August 1st 2024 THIRTY years ago, back in 1994, the largest companies in the world were automobile...
All to play for when the chips are down
Ian Ritchie. The Herald Business HQ. Friday 5th July 2024 In the last few weeks, graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia briefly became the...
Too few leading lights in business
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald December 21st 2023 It's one of the biggest challenges for the Scottish economy: where do business...
Are there too few women in our seats of power?
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald October 1st, 2023 Are women increasingly dissatisfied with their working lives? Here, Ian Ritchie...
Should we get in a lather over advent of AI?
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald June 29th, 2023 Artificial Intelligence could transform the economy but investors should be...
World awaits if we invest in the future
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald March 26th 2023 The UK is in dire need of technology innovative companies to compete globally,...
Grab opportunities by the horns
Ian Ritchie Business HQ / The Herald December 11th 2022 Ian Ritchie explores the prospects of Scotland producing brand new unicorns by...
Putin's horror in Ukraine could be eclipsed by action over Taiwan
Ian Ritchie Scottish Business Insider - May 2022 THE RUSSIAN INVASION of Ukraine has blown a massive hole in the globalised trading...
The strange case of 'levelling up' is surely an affront to democracy
Ian Ritchie Scottish Business Insider - February 2022 AT THE LAST UK ELECTION the Conservatives succeeded in winning a substantial...
Note to COP26: We will need trillions to fund the grand challenges
Ian Ritchie Scottish Business Insider Oct/Nov/Dec 2021 COP26, arriving in Glasgow over the coming days, will undoubtedly be declared a...
The world has a message for Facebook: it's time to clean up your network.
MARK ZUCKERBERG IS the master of all he surveys. His social media businesses are worth over one trillion dollars and have over 2.5bn...
It's time for the government to cut its ties to Openreach and look to the skies
Scottish Business Insider May 2021 BACK AT THE TURN of the 21st century, I was the ‘expert advisor’ to a committee of the Scottish...
Attracting Scots talent to return home could be shot in the arm for battered economy
Scottish Business Insider February 2021 ON, INEVITABLY, a Zoom call recently with a group of senior Scottish businessmen, I was struck...
A word of caution over online security as you turn to tech for business
Scottish Business Insider May 2020 IN THE DYSTOPIAN DISASTER MOVIE in which we are all currently trapped, many of us are working from...