Scotland

Scotland offers businesses a thrusting commercial environment, with efficient links to London, the continent and the rest of the world. With their reputation for innovation and inventiveness, Scots welcome new business ideas and are quick to adapt to new trends and strategies. One in every ten workers north of the border is engaged in financial services, a sector which now generates 7 per cent of Scotland’s GDP.

With the potential to establish itself as Europe’s top provider of green energy and a historic commitment to hydro-electric schemes, Scotland is busily developing its resources in windfarms, wave energy, tidal energy and bio-mass generation. These energies of the future are being built on Scotland’s traditional strengths in design, engineering and manufacture.

Traditional sectors such as shipbuilding and engineering still play a role in the economy. BAE’s facility on the Clyde has just won a £3 billion contract to build the very latest in aircraft carriers

Scotland has a world class reputation in rapidly growing sectors such as software development, computer game design, engineering, life sciences, bio-tech, energy, as well as the extraction of offshore oil and gas resources.