By Steven McGinty On 22 March, I attended ‘Smarter Tourism: Shaping Glasgow’s Data Plan’, an event held as part of DataFest 2017, a week-long festival of data innovation with events hosted across Scotland. Daniel MacIntyre, from Glasgow City Marketing Bureau ....
By Heather Cameron With the economic performance of cities and regions increasingly reliant on the skills of their workforce, the longstanding issue of graduate ‘brain drain’ to London and the south is something that needs to be addressed. Although students ....
By Steven McGinty On 26 January, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that they would be appointing the world’s first ‘digital ambassador’ to act as the nation’s representative to major technology companies, such as Google, Apple, Facebook and ....
By Heather Cameron Predominantly set within environmentally attractive surroundings, historic towns and cities have a strong sense of place, offer a good quality of life, are often prosperous and represent models of sustainable development. Research shows that businesses based in ....
by Stacey Dingwall Recently we profiled Research Online, one of the two research portals managed by the Knowledge Exchange team. In this blog, we focus on Evaluations Online. Economic development activity in Scotland Evaluations Online is a public portal providing access ....
By Steven McGinty On 25 May 2018, the data protection landscape will experience its biggest change in over 20 years. This is because the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect for all member ....
By Heather Cameron The employment rate may have hit a record high of 74.6%, with unemployment continuing to run at an 11-year low, but in-work poverty has also reached unprecedented levels. More than half (55%) of people in poverty are ....
By Heather Cameron The Local Government Association (LGA) last week called for greater devolution of employment and skills funding to councils and a ‘radical rethink’ of the way Jobcentre Plus works. Chairman of the LGA’s People and Places Board said: ....
by Stacey Dingwall As well as the Idox Information Service, the Knowledge Exchange Team manages two other research portals – Research Online and Evaluations Online. This blog focuses on Research Online, which we developed over 13 years ago and have ....
By Heather Cameron As one of the trendiest terms of recent times, innovation has become familiar across the business world. But has its excessive use to refer to anything new effectively made the term a meaningless buzzword? Lack of meaning ....
