Excellence, achievement, innovation and research are features for which Scotland is renowned. With a supportive government, excellent university facilities and a centuries-old culture of inventiveness, Scotland can provide the world-class expertise in research and development that your business needs.
Today, Scotland’s reputation for innovation and research is particularly strong in the electronics, life sciences and software development industries.
Scotland’s innovation and research expertise
Scotland’s colleges, universities and other institutions produce thousands of graduates each year and carry out world-leading research. This builds on Scotland’s tradition of innovation, which over the years has seen our talented minds responsible for many inventions, including:
- Television.
- Telephone.
- Penicillin.
- Radar.
- Antiseptic.
- Anaesthetic.
Scotland has become a major global player in business development and industrial innovation. Some of the biggest companies in the world have bases in Scotland, carrying out cutting-edge research and developing new business practices.
In recent years, Scottish companies have created the Grand Theft Auto series of video games, developed the first successfully cloned mammal and been at the forefront of research into nanotechnology.
Research and innovation in Scotland’s universities
Scotland is world-renowned for the excellence of its universities, which attract students from across the globe. Glasgow and Dundee have been named as being among the top five locations in the world for life sciences research, largely down to the quality of universities in both cities, which are world-famous for their contribution to biotechnology.
Excellent links between government, industry and academia in Scotland help promote ground-breaking research, innovation and development. Government schemes designed to support innovation in industry and encourage the development of new products and business practices include:
Scotland's universities have experience of working with the commercial sector and are committed to seeing new breakthroughs emerge from the laboratory and into the market. Innovation at these world-leading universities creates many commercial and research opportunities in Scotland that cross several industries.
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