Business Opinion

  • How seeds scheme is helping firms to blossom
    16 May 2013

    Given their existing size, scope and capacity for future growth, technology and life sciences are rightly two of the key focus sectors within the Scottish economy.

  • Agenda
    12 May 2013

    Time for some more "Emerging Findings" from the Scottish Government's digital directorate "Supporting the transition to a world-leading digital future", the latest in a series of publications on the subject.

  • HERALD VIEW
    11 May 2013

    "THIS is a great day for Scottish sports fans," said Ian Livingston.

  • Herald view
    9 May 2013

    ONCE upon a time supermarkets were places where we bought groceries.

  • Cycling firm reaps the rewards of bespoke approach
    5 May 2013

    A start-up that aims to be Scotland's first international bicycle brand since the demise of the Glasgow-built "Flying Scot" has won a top prize at the UK's leading cycle manufacturing show.

  • Agenda
    5 May 2013

    Given how much it relies on the Scotch whisky industry to make its case about an independent Scotland's superior balance of payments, the Scottish Government could do without a drawn-out war against the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA).

  • Don't give up the day job - yet
    23 April 2013

    When you hear the expression “don’t give up the day job”, hopefully you are sitting on the sofa on a Saturday night watching Simon Cowell deal a crushing blow to a man pretending to be a snail while singing I Want to Break Free, rather being told you have an awful business idea and  should get used to a life of nine to five.

  • Another hurdle for dairy firm Mapping out the future
    21 April 2013

    Graham's Dairies' determination to develop the green belt around the family dairy in Bridge of Allan has become an epic trial of strength between a well-connected local business, a powerful quango, and a vocal local community, spearhaded by Green and Conservative councillors.

  • Herald View
    18 April 2013

    A LOT has changed since the mid-2000s.