scottish highlands

The Scottish Paradox I Can’t Resolve

Business

Yesterday we explained about our latest FP7 project, and how we resolved the paradox between the undeniable opportunity and the unmanageable risk for SMEs getting involved. We didn’t explain the problems we’ve had with the Scottish business development agencies and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) in particular, so we’ll do that now. If Alex Salmond [...]

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So The Future is Bright, Is It?

Business

The future for businesses in the Scottish Highlands, or that’s the message from the presentation to Inverness Chamber of Commerce by HSBC, reported below. Well he would say that wouldn’t he? He can hardly predict the rapid decline of the local economy as the public sector is quite rightly shrunk by enforced by spending controls. [...]

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Not in the Highlands It Isn’t

Business

More on the business opportunities presented by the Internet to Scottish Highlands businesses in this report, which is encouraging. But its hard to believe. From everything I see most UK business has got its head stuck up the public sector’s Outlook. If I get one more Outlook Calendar invitation I’ll think seriously about retiring. Google [...]

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Scottish Highlands Adventure Travel Destination?

Attractions

Come to the Scottish Highlands for your next adventure holiday. This article (which I’m not sure I totally believe) says its a great area for exciting, activity holidays. And its true. Skiing in the winter, hill walking in winter – if you are truly nuts – and summer. Kite surfing, golfing, fishing, flying about on [...]

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Highlands and Islands Gets Superfast Broadband

Business

Scottish Highlands businesses will be the first to benefit from the new superfast broadband. In that case all of us small business owners wanting to export our goodies will be very happy. Is this too good to be true. We’re big fans of the way Internet technologies live where we want, and work where we [...]

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Free Hosting for Highlands Software

Comment

Scottish Highlands software developers can now host and distribute their work to the global market, for free. As Mashable explains in this article, Amazon will provide everything they need to get their software out there, provided of course it’s written to display in web pages. I can’t imagine anybody is writing software to run on [...]

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How to Get Your Book Published

Business

Now Scottish Highlands authors and other content creators can quite readily get their work published to the global market, through the iBookstore. This article from Copyblogger explains just how simple it can be. Now all we have to do is write the book, huh? One of the original forms of content marketing is publishing a [...]

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SME Business Opportunity of the Century

Business

Small businesses in the Scottish Highlands are missing out on probably the biggest business opportunity of the century, because nobody’s telling them about it. This article from Front Office Box explains how the EU is giving away up to €54 billions to help SME‘s harness the R & D capabilities of Universities and other research [...]

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Amazon Web Services Offers Free Cloud Access

Business

Image via CrunchBase With FREE web hosting Scottish Highlands software providers can finally exploit the Internet, as Mashable explains with this summary of the recent Amazon Web Services announcement. The word gets flatter everyday with innovation like this and opportunities for Highlands based businesses expand exponentially as a result. We’re no longer constrained by geography, [...]

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Now We Can All Get Published, Wherever We Create

Business

Have you heard about Apple’s iBookstore?  Copyblogger gives us the inside track on how Scottish Highlands authors can get published in the new iBookstore. With the iBookstore there will be plenty of competition no doubt but this has to be the biggest opportunity ever for authors and other content creators living in the Highlands. Now [...]

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