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Resource Efficient Scotland can advise SMEs on how they can boost their bottom lines by making energy and refuse reduction a top priority, writes Rosemary Gallagher

Scotland’s national economic development agency is geared up to help accelerate the delivery of growth for ambitious firms, finds Sarah Devine

Scotland’s life sciences industry has its sights set on reaching a turnover target of £8 billion by 2025.

Sarah Devine consults two experts with a wealth of experience in advising family firms on how to make profits rise, effect a smooth succession and exit the scene gracefully

Strathclyde Business School’s Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) has been awarded funding by the ESRC for a £1 million project investigating management practices and their effect on innovation and productivity.

Digital agency Tayburn has launched the new mobile-first website for Scottish Rugby.

Positive action by female champions is the way to overcome entrenched bias that deters so many from excelling in STEM subjects, writes Dani Garavelli.

A law must be introduced to clamp down on unqualified people calling themselves electricians, according to an MSP.

Data is enabling companies to operate in a more efficient and sustainable way.

Data is transforming how companies operate and driving sustainable growth.

Small businesses handle vast volumes of data but how can they make best use of it?

As Scottish businesses have enjoyed solid growth since the last recession, a new focus on entrepreneurship has seen the help and support available to start-ups vastly increase.

Why do we need 3D printing? is unfortunately not an ­uncommon response from Scottish companies when I ask if they’re interested in using additive manufacturing in their business.

With the news that the whisky giant Glenmorangie had recently assisted a groundbreaking environmental project which has seen Native European oysters reintroduced to their once native waters of the Highlands after a century’s absence, it would seem that the Scottish spirits industry is beginning to take its green credentials quite seriously.