Scotland’s Enterprising and Innovative Tech Future

For a small country, Scotland has a beating heart of innovation and enterprise. The country is known around the world for its inventors and enterprising spirit. But, at the core of this, is a commitment to education at all levels, and in breaking down the barriers in the access to education.

Scotland, too, has some of the most beautiful and livable cities in the world, and where you’ll find green spaces abound. But, our future economies will be built on attracting (and keeping) talent, and in building companies of scale. If a country fails to do these things, it will have little control over its economic development — and create a sustainable economy.

And, so, the Scottish Government are investing in the future with the announcement of CodeBase being awarded £42 million to establish seven new tech scaler hubs across Scotland. All three of our highly successful spin-outs — Zonefox, Symphonic and Cyacomb — have all grown within the CodeBase infrastructure, so it is good to see its core innovation infrastructure being scaled across Scotland. It is all part of Mark Logan’s 2020 Scottish Tech Ecosystem Review, and which called for a scale-up of the pipeline for…