SustainAbility’s sister company, Volans, on 31 may announced a strategic partnership with the UN Global Compact to create the Breakthrough Innovation Platform, targeted for launch in September 2016. The aim of the platform is to bridge between the linear world of incumbent companies and the increasingly exponential worlds of the insurgent innovators and entrepreneurs now driving an A-to-Z of […]

The Scottish Government will “listen carefully to business and search for constructive ideas about how it can support economic growth,” an audience of around 70 businesses heard in Edinburgh on 2 June. Cabinet Secretary for the Economy Keith Brown and Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse answered questions at a business breakfast celebrating the first anniversary of […]

With the final deadline to apply for the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) less than a fortnight away, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) is urging farmers to apply as soon as possible before midnight on 10 June. Farmers still to apply for BPS this year incur a 1% penalty for every working day it is […]

A new exhibition at The Lighthouse in Glasgow will showcase stunning designs, created collaboratively by Scottish and international agencies, for a potential renewable energy project to be located at Dundashill in Port Dundas, on the banks of the Forth & Clyde canal in the city.   The designs were based on the idea that such […]

A new contract to maintain and respond to issues on Yorkshire and the Humber’s motorways and major A roads has been awarded to highways specialist A-one+. The Highways England contract, which will run from 7 June, will ensure the region’s strategic roads are well maintained and safe to use for the 270,000 businesses and 5,000,000 […]

Declining productivity growth and rising inequality are two of the biggest obstacles to improved economic performance, according to a new OECD report. The Productivity-Inclusiveness Nexus explores the root causes behind each of these challenges, examining the extent to which they are connected, and at how to take a coherent policy response.  In particular, it signals the […]

Aberdeenshire Council have been successful in securing £135,000 of grant funding from Transport Scotland’s 2016/17 Community Links programme and £50,000 from the Cycling Development Fund to support the Council’s ongoing Integrated Travel Town (ITT) project. The ITT project, aims to develop active & sustainable transport schemes, and will help to enable everyday journeys to be […]

Scotland can become a more productive country through “innovation, investment, internationalisation and tackling inequality”, Economy Secretary Keith Brown will say on 31 May. Ahead of opening the first economy debate of the new Parliament on 31 may, Mr Brown said Scotland’s economy had proven resilient in face of considerable challenges and is well placed to […]