University’s incubator programme selects cancer-fighting start-ups
TWENTY start-ups — eight of them operating projects in the field of cancer — have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme...
Patrick Awuah: Educating the Future Leaders of Africa
The prestigious and pioneering Ashesi University in Ghana is on a mission to educate a new generation of business leaders. Built on a hilltop...
Flash-in-the-mouth tech win for Scots firm
SCOTTISH dental-imaging tech company Calcivis is getting its teeth into the US thanks to pre-market approval from the FDA.
CEO of the Edinburgh-based firm, Adam...
LATAM Airline Group: Wings Over Latin America
How a small carrier from an inward-looking, almost insular, country outcompeted the big guys and gobbled them up to become the largest airline in...
Celestial origins to cerebral slogans, Nike’s been just doing it for...
The world’s largest supplier of athletic shoes and clothing owes its success to dedication, hard work… and the willingness to correct errors and oversights
Nike...
Out with the Old: Pope Francis
At an age when most people would gratefully embrace retirement, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the CEO of a high-profile global organisation facing major challenges....
Ellen Ochoa: How Dreams Come True
Going into space is the stuff of dreams, fiction, or fantasy. Plans for space tourism may materialise in the future, but currently astronauts are...
‘A pro-enterprise pioneer’ – CBI Scotland Annual Dinner
Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, outlined reasons why overseas firms should continue investing in the country at the CBI Scotland Annual Dinner this evening (Thursday).
Attending...
John and Patrick Collison: Two Lads in Silicon Valley
Deciding to drop out of Yale University half-way through the curriculum requires a good reason. A privileged Ivy League education is not dispensed with...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
As a monetary bludgeon wielded menacingly to impose a federalisation process on the reluctant nations of Europe, the euro has failed miserable. As a...
