Building a New World At Scale: Innovation, Knowledge, and Skills

Re-building from the ground-up … we need root-and-branch reform of our digital world in order to build the future

Scotland is a great country. Full of smart people, and great cities. It is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. But it is struggling to truly transform itself into a world-leading digital economy. It might say that it leads in areas such as cybersecurity, but its struggles to show that it has the infrastructure to showcase truly innovative companies, and which could scale to become world-leaders. While London has over 216 companies involved in blockchain, for example, Scotland was recently identified as having just five (Wallet Services, Appii, Maidsafe, Kippitech, and Spiritus). Scotland’s innovation infrastructure just hopes that the next great thing will come along, and there’s not much building around areas of high innovation. To bring companies together as a general cluster is not the same as bringing some truly smart people together to work on a vision, and define how best to solve the problems.

People with great ideas from around the world must be supported to come to Scotland, as they will be surrounded by the ideas and knowledge that they need. Zug Valley is a perfect example of creating an environment…