Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 8, 2013
- 3 min
Scotland doesn't have a monopoly on infrastructure incompetance
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...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Feb 8, 2013
- 3 min
How would an independent Scotland fund its research?
NOW THAT we have fixed both the date and the question for the referendum on Scottish independence maybe we can expect our politicians to...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 16, 2012
- 3 min
Strengths and weaknesses in Scots attitude to entrepreneurship
THE LATEST ‘Global Entrepreneurship Monitor’ (GEM) report has just been published and as usual it makes interesting reading. GEM is a...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Oct 19, 2012
- 3 min
When it comes to national trade figures should we mind the gap?
YOU KNOW these “Whatever happened to…” columns that appear in newspapers and magazines now and then. They are usually commissioned...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 7, 2012
- 3 min
Economic ‘level playing field’ undermined by inequality
THOMAS FRIEDMAN STATED ‘The World is Flat’ in his bestselling book of the same name on the effects of globalisation which was first...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jul 18, 2012
- 3 min
Lessons should be learned from Finnish approach to education
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...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jun 1, 2012
- 3 min
The evolution of espionage and hacking
A FEW WEEKS AGO I visited the global control room of a company called Akamai in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The scene could have come...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Apr 20, 2012
- 3 min
Scotland risks irrelevance after independence
A RECENT VISIT TO New Zealand gave the opportunity to observe how a small independent country exists in the modern global economy – much...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 9, 2012
- 3 min
Is Google getting too nosey for its own good?
ONE OF THE MIRACLES of modern technology is undoubtedly Google, without which we might never be able to find anything on the internet....
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 21, 2012
- 3 min
Telecoms old guard need to show their mettle
WAY BACK IN 1953, a Canadian businessman called Roy Thomson rescued the then troubled Scotsman newspaper group by buying a majority share...
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