Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Oct 9, 2015
- 3 min
What makes someone an exemplary entrepreneur?
A WHILE AGO I took part in a ‘Question Time’ event at a Scottish high school, and was identified on the panel as an entrepreneur. One of...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 11, 2015
- 3 min
Impact of industry experience in academia must be recognised
HERE IN the UK we have some of the world's top Universities. Alongside the US we dominate all the league tables for high quality research...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jul 21, 2015
- 3 min
'Big Data' is useful but caution is still needed when drawing conclusions
OVER 30 YEARS AGO, in the early days of the personal computer, I worked on the commercialisation of a machine intelligence algorithm from...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business InsiderIan Ritchie
- Jun 19, 2015
- 3 min
The internet is not as green as we imagine
THE INTERNET MAKES a major contribution to reducing global warming, we all know that, don’t we? As we travel less to attend meetings and...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- May 8, 2015
- 3 min
Tech success story propels Edinburgh into the global 'unicorn' league
THE COVER OF the February 1st issue of Fortune magazine features a striking illustration of a unicorn wearing a hoodie, making it look...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Apr 3, 2015
- 3 min
EU and Scottish Government missing out on expert advice
A WHILE AGO I bumped into Professor Anne Glover, the then Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) to the President of the European Union at a...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business InsiderIan Ritchie
- Mar 5, 2015
- 3 min
Regional banks' traditional sterling banknotes defeat their purpose
I DON’T KNOW about you, but for the last few years I have chosen to carry Bank of England (BoE) banknotes rather than the notes supplied...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 9, 2015
- 3 min
Public funds are instrumental in the prosperity of private enterprises
EVERY NOW AND AGAIN somebody writes a book that breaks out of the narrow field of innovation policy for which it was intended and gains a...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Dec 5, 2014
- 3 min
Action needed to ensure fairness around spinouts
THE WORLD OF high-technology, high growth start-ups is a challenging one. Would-be entrepreneurs have to cope not only with developing a...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 7, 2014
- 3 min
Predictions of 1970 economic report now being borne out
SOME FORTY YEARS AGO, when I was a young engineering student at university we were introduced to the Limits to Growth (LtG), a report...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Oct 10, 2014
- 3 min
Skills shortfall means we must encourage students into engineering
EVERY NOW AND THEN I give a talk at a Scottish high school where I try and encourage them to consider following a career in engineering....
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 15, 2014
- 3 min
The time for Scotland to chose its future has finally arrived
WELL, HERE WE ARE, September 2014, and we are finally confronted with making the decision on the most significant constitutional issue we...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jul 22, 2014
- 3 min
In search of a solution to the problem of growing businesses of scale
EVERY THREE MONTHS Ascendant, a corporate finance company based in London, publishes a review of investment trends for the technology...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jun 3, 2014
- 3 min
Capital transport system was on the right track a century ago
AFTER YEARS of what can fairly be described as an absolute shambles – chronic delays, incompetent construction, and costs running way out...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Apr 25, 2014
- 3 min
Funding situation for start-ups much improved since 1984
WHERE WERE YOU when Insider was founded back in 1984? Well, I know exactly where I was because I was also founding a new enterprise in...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 11, 2014
- 3 min
Energy needs must be met, but without ravaging our environment
CAMPAIGNERS ARE CURRENTLY jumping on the protest bandwagon trying to stop the development of ‘fracking’ – the recovery of natural gas...
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