Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jun 6, 2007
- 2 min
We must keep the Enterprise Fellowship Programme
A FEW years ago, Scottish Enterprise developed a new strategy for Scotland. In agreement with the Scottish Executive it defined the...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Apr 30, 2007
- 2 min
Here's a TV novelty: programmes made in Scotland for most Scots
IN CASE YOU haven't noticed, £l6m of public funding has just been ponied up to establish a new Gaelic TV channel. I make that £232 for...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Mar 28, 2007
- 3 min
Here's a vision for our politicians: we will become a totally carbon neutral country over 20 yea
WELL, the elections for the Scottish Parliament are looming ... and are we bored rigid yet? Maybe we shouldn't be disappointed at the...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Feb 28, 2007
- 3 min
Radical moves at Apple's core - music downloads just got cheaper
THERE SEEMS TO BE an aura surrounding Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple - a kind of 'reality distortion field' that exempts him from...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Jan 31, 2007
- 3 min
Creative Scotland: born to fail?
AT THE END OF 2003 it all looked very promising. On St Andrew's day that year, First Minister Jack McConnell made a visionary speech...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Dec 28, 2006
- 3 min
Election is time to wring fiscal concessions from the Treasury
IT IS A UNIVERSAL TRUTH that Scotland leads the pack in scientific development and innovation. Scots research universities competitively...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Dec 1, 2006
- 3 min
Learning from two contrasting big growth economies
THIS IS A TALE of two countries: China and India. Both are nations of well over one billion people each and both have been growing...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Nov 1, 2006
- 3 min
Learning to say ‘no’ and the ABCs of global management
FOR MANAGERS in technology businesses this is the season for thinking internationally. Scottish Enterprise held the inaugural Globalscot...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Oct 2, 2006
- 2 min
It takes quality and quantity to stay world beaters, Scotty
THIS IS REALLY WORRYING. Scotland might be running out of engineers. The country has a fine tradition of scientists and engineers from...
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Ian Ritchie : Scottish Business Insider
- Sep 4, 2006
- 3 min
Flying’s no angel, but there are bigger C02 criminals
OF ALL THE ACTIVITIES demonised by society up there with foxhunting, harpooning whales and clubbing baby seals to death, now comes the...
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