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Moredun reveals a busy show itinerary for Ingliston
The Royal Highland Show remains one of the most important events in the calendar for the Moredun Research Institute to catch up with the farming community. Moredun will once again be welcoming farmers, vets, industry partners, policymakers and families to its marquee at this year’s show. Staff will be on hand across the four days to answer questions, share knowledge and discuss some of the major animal health issues facing Scotland’s livestock sector.
RBS launches 'game-changing' IP lending product for Scotland’s creatives and spinouts
The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the first bank in Scotland to allow companies to borrow up to £10 million against the value of their Intellectual Property (IP). The IP lending scheme has gone live today at a launch event with representatives from Scotland’s technology and creative sectors at the University of Edinburgh.
Source: Scottish Financial News
Inside EPCC, the UK’s first National Supercomputing Centre
For more than three decades, EPCC, part of the University of Edinburgh, has been a driving force behind supercomputing innovation in the UK. Over the last ten years, its mission has expanded to encompass data science and artificial intelligence (AI), positioning EPCC at the forefront of the technologies reshaping research, industry, and public services.
Source: Innovation News Network
Converge welcomes latest cohort with “astonishing breadth and depth of innovation”
Congratulations to Arvaan Mukherjee, Co-Founder and CTO of PhytoVenomics, on being selected as a participant in the 2026 Converge cohort ‘KickStart Challenge’, designed for aspiring entrepreneurs to test, validate and prepare to launch an innovative business ideas. The Roslin Innovation Centre tenant start-up is creating safer, more reliable and globally accessible, next-generation anti-venom solutions.
Scotland’s spinout potential is real – and its capital is finally catching up
University Spinouts are having a moment. Investment in the sector hit £3.35bn in 2024, up 44% on the year before, and the institutions driving those headlines – UCL, Oxford, Cambridge – are clustered within a few miles of each other in London. UCL Business’ recent research underscores the point, with academics at a single London university having driven £3.06bn in external investment across 95 active spinout companies over the past five years.
Source: DIGIT
Women, wealth and the future of Scotland’s healthcare sector
Over the next 20 years, Scotland is set to experience a quiet but consequential shift in economic power. As wealth passes from one generation to the next, a growing share will move into the hands of women through inheritance, business exits and entrepreneurship.
Known as the Great Wealth Transfer, this has the potential to influence how capital is deployed, which sectors attract investment, and how Scotland’s business landscape evolves.
Source: The Scotsman
Mid-sized scale-up space “essential” to sustain Scotland’s life sciences sector
New data has revealed that a shortage of specialist laboratory and manufacturing space could slow the growth of Scotland’s life sciences sector - an industry set to surge to £25bn by 2035.
The report, produced by CBRE on behalf of Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government, analysed supply and demand for laboratory, office and manufacturing space within Scottish Enterprise’s geographical area, primarily in eastern, central and parts of southern Scotland. .
Source: Insider
International Centre set to transform global animal welfare education
SRUC is set to take a bold new step on the global stage with plans to launch an International Centre for Animal Welfare Science and Education within its School of Veterinary Medicine and Biosciences.
The Centre builds on SRUC’s world-leading expertise in animal behaviour and welfare and brings established global partnerships, deep in-house expertise and a strong commitment to capacity building in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
Introduction to the new Engineering Biology Hub on the Easter Bush Campus
The Midlothian Science Zone Business Forum took place on Tuesday 14th April 2026 at The Roslin Institute, to learn more about the newly established Engineering Biology Hub at the Easter Bush Campus (EB2), highlighting ongoing research projects, research capability and partnership opportunities.
Edinburgh University spinout Exergy3 raises £10m to turn wasted wind power into industrial heat
Exergy3 has closed a £10m seed round to commercialise technology that converts curtailed renewable electricity into high-temperature heat for industrial use, tackling grid waste and factory emissions in one go.
The Edinburgh University spinout has developed modular thermal energy storage units that take surplus power, such as wind generation the grid cannot absorb in real time, and deliver process heat at temperatures ranging from 50°C to 1,200°C.
Source: UK Investor Magazine