AN ENORMOUS amount of our money, £3bn or so, is spent every year on research at leading universities. Not surprisingly, many think that...

PASSENGERS on Edinburgh’s No. 14 bus may have been puzzled at the huge posters promoting a computer game – Grand Theft Auto V (GTAV) –...

IT’S ALWAYS been tough to raise investment for a start-up company but over the last few years it has got much worse. The banking crisis...

IT'S HARD TO OVERSTATE the impact of the great financial crash of 2008: around 40% of the world’s apparent wealth disappeared practically...

OH DEAR. I find I have to 'un-friend' my 'Friend for Life'. It does seem quaint that any bank these days could get away with such a...

EUROSTAT, THE STATISTICAL OFFICE of the EU has recently published their annual report on the relative wealth of the various sub-regions...

THE ‘SCIENCE LOBBY’ is on the offensive. Sir Paul Nurse, the President of the Royal Society, speaking on behalf of the four major UK...

AS WE SQUARE UP for Scotland’s independence vote 18 months from now, the dynamic of the contest is beginning to shape up, and it doesn’t...

ON A RECENT trip to Berlin I was somewhat taken aback by the relative shabbiness of the city’s Schönefeld airport, which didn't seem to...

NOW THAT we have fixed both the date and the question for the referendum on Scottish independence maybe we can expect our politicians to...

THE LATEST ‘Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’ (GEM) report has just been published and as usual it makes interesting reading. GEM is a...

YOU KNOW these “Whatever happened to…” columns that appear in newspapers and magazines now and then. They are usually commissioned...

THOMAS FRIEDMAN STATED ‘The World is Flat’ in his bestselling book of the same name on the effects of globalisation which was first...

WHEN UK EDUCATION MINISTER Michael Gove appeared on the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show a few weeks ago, he remarked that every guest on the...

A FEW WEEKS AGO I visited the global control room of a company called Akamai in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The scene could have come...

A RECENT VISIT TO New Zealand gave the opportunity to observe how a small independent country exists in the modern global economy – much...

ONE OF THE MIRACLES of modern technology is undoubtedly Google, without which we might never be able to find anything on the internet....

WAY BACK IN 1953, a Canadian businessman called Roy Thomson rescued the then troubled Scotsman newspaper group by buying a majority share...