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Scotland’s scaleups being held back by £25m glass ceiling
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Scotland’s scaleups being held back by £25m glass ceiling

Scotland risks losing high-growth companies overseas unless it addresses a widening gap in later-stage capital and skills, industry leaders have warned.

At an industrial strategy roundtable in Glasgow, investors, manufacturers and public agencies agreed that while Scotland performs strongly in spinouts and early-stage funding, the transition to scale remains the system’s weakest link.

Source: The Scotsman

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£4.5 million Edinburgh skills project will boost life sciences sector and NHS
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£4.5 million Edinburgh skills project will boost life sciences sector and NHS

Edinburgh is to become a base for a multi-million-pound project to help address an “acute” skills shortage in the life sciences sector.

The new initiative, known as Resilience, aims to tackle the skills shortage faced by the medicines manufacturing industry in the UK, and the capital’s Heriot-Watt University will be one of the partners delivering the programme.

Source: The Scotsman

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Kickstarting in Midlothian Science Zone
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Kickstarting in Midlothian Science Zone

There are many opportunities working in science related roles and other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) based activities which offer young people variety and career progression.

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