US will pay for Trump's war on science
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / July 2025 T HE WELL-KNOWN phrase “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance” is being...
A question of breaking the monopoly
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / June 2025 T HE ARRIVAL of the internet in the mid-1990s completely revolutionised the world of...
Don't blame the tools, adopt them
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / May 2025 WE HAVE ALL heard that Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to destroy lots...
Is AI the insincerest form of flattery?
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / April 2025 A MAJOR STUSHIE is currently brewing between our government and the UK creative...
Tragedy when 'the computer says no'
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / March 2025 "THE LAW IS AN ASS, an idiot” said Mr Bumble in Oliver Twist, and that was absolutely...
Strong-arming of Trump and tech bros
Ian Ritchie / The Herald Business HQ / February 2025 THE TRUMP 2.0 administration has declared an ‘America First’ policy, inevitably...
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...