Business for Good: Balancing Purpose with Profit in a Post-Covid Scotland
05 August 2020Take a step back or pause for thought to reflect on why you are doing what you are doing. Why does your organisation exist?
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Invest for best from workforce
22 July 2020Build, build, build, spend, spend, spend – some of the mantras we regularly hear from Government Ministers are linked very clearly to jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Partnering for prosperity - let’s make it happen
10 July 2020Rehabilitation, recovery and re-imagination offer businesses a path out of lockdown as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and rebuild Scotland’s economy, social wellbeing and education.
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Adapting to Covid-19: Creating Memorable Experiences in Virtual Spaces
25 June 2020In our Interface webinar on Tuesday 9 June 2020, Dr Tom Flint, Public Engagement Lead for the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and Ruthanne Baxter, Museums Services Manager at the University of Edinburgh and Lead on Prescribe Culture Take 30 Together Virtual, explored using technology to engage audiences in cost-effective and creative ways.
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Giving space businesses a launch pad
12 June 2020I’ve been based in Tontine, in Glasgow’s Merchant City, for three years now, working with businesses of all sizes, in all sectors, to match them to Scotland’s world-leading academic expertise to help them grow. Co-locating with the Scottish Space Incubator has been a privilege and an education, working with some of the most interesting and promising start-ups in the country.
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Rebuilding a more resilient economy with innovation at its centre
02 June 2020The challenge of encouraging regional economic growth is likely to be even more important as the UK emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic and looks to rebuild and reimagine the economy. Two reports from CaSE and NESTA published in the last few weeks focus on 'levelling up' and the R&D investment agenda.
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Engaging your offline network online
19 May 2020If attending conferences and doing networking has been one of your main business channels, the current situation might be frustrating. But don’t see this as a disadvantage. If you have been building a network offline, there is a huge opportunity for you to move the conversation to online channels such as LinkedIn.
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Adaptation in uncharted waters
05 May 2020Serene, watchful, stately, majestic, good-natured, gentle and unruffled; there are many words that come to my mind when I look at the picture of the swan in front of the GRID building at Heriot-Watt University, recently taken by my colleague Suzy.
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Delayed Tourism Gratification – despite the lusting!
15 April 2020It’s getting to a point where it’s almost impossible to imagine life pre-coronavirus, especially for food & drink and tourism business which were hit the soonest, and hit hard.
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United in battle against coronavirus
03 April 2020We always knew that we worked with dynamic, agile and inventive company and academic teams, however they have blown us away with their ability to adapt and support in the fight against COVID-19.
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#EachforEqual – I will celebrate women’s achievements
06 March 2020This week celebrates both World Book Day and International Women’s Day and what better way to combine these two with storytime celebrating the ‘Fantastically great women who changed the world’.
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