Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 7, 2019
- 3 min
Orkney becomes first in UK to power its energy needs from renewable sources
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO I was invited to speak at the newly established Orkney Science Festival and I looked forward to making my first of...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 11, 2019
- 3 min
How can Nick Clegg be the right man to clean up Facebook's image?
WHEN BROADCASTING was first introduced around the world - radio from the 1920s and television from the late 1940s – governments...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
It makes sense that a company could work better if it's owned by its own employees
GOVERNMENTS, political parties and economists have recently been revisiting an old issue - who actually owns businesses, and maybe...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 10, 2018
- 3 min
If we don't tackle the injustice at the web's heart its streams of content will simply dry u
THE LAST 20 years have not been kind to those creative types who originate new content. Advertising income which used to financially...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jul 6, 2018
- 3 min
Amazon helps put workers on Skid Row - so why does our government do so much to help them?
THE CITY OF SEATTLE at the top left hand corner of the United States has become famous for successful global businesses such as Boeing,...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- May 11, 2018
- 3 min
Why not ask public businesses with a proven track record to run the East Coast rail line
WHENEVER I AM OBLIGED to join the ranks of the WILLIEs – that’s the name for people who ‘Work In London, Live In Edinburgh’ – I usually...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 16, 2018
- 3 min
'Elite' Scottish Universities paper over education cracks
LET'S FACE IT – Scotland doesn’t really lead the world in anything much. Our sports teams are mediocre, we have almost no globally...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 15, 2018
- 3 min
We have the power to control the online 'Wild West'
EARLIER THIS YEAR I took part in a two day ‘summit’ meeting at an historic Scottish country house during a rare burst of spectacular...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Dec 1, 2017
- 3 min
Awards' international female role models beg a question
BACK IN 1989, I was chairman of the Scottish Software Federation, the then nascent trade association for the Scottish software industry....
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