ECONOMIC development agency Scottish Enterprise will today unveil an ambitious target of helping to create up to 35,000 jobs by 2015 by attracting foreign investors – including 12,000 "high-value" posts.

It will also, in its latest business plan, reveal its aim of attracting £350 million of private investment into the offshore renewable sector on the same timeframe.

Scottish Enterprise chief executive Lena Wilson, speaking to The Herald ahead of today's unveiling of the business plan, meanwhile expressed her confidence that the uncertainty over the constitutional future of Scotland would not affect inward investment.

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