Scotland's International Strategy

Footnotes

1 Scottish Government, ‘Equality, opportunity, community: New leadership - A fresh start’, 18 April 2023, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/equality-opportunity-community-new-leadership-fresh-start/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

2 United Nations, ‘Global Citizenship’, URL: https://www.un.org/en/academic-impact/global-citizenship [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

3 Scottish Government, ‘Human Rights Bill consultation’, 15 June 2023, URL: https://www.gov.scot/news/human-rights-bill-consultation/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

4 Further information on the work and impact of our international offices can be found in: Scottish Government, ‘Understanding Scotland’s International Network - International network: annual report 2022-2023’, 9 November 2023, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-international-network-annual-report-2022-23/pages/4/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

5 Scottish Enterprise, ‘Annual Report and Accounts’, URL: https://www.scottish-enterprise.com/media/d3ap2m30/se-group-accounts-2023.pdf [last accessed 10 January 2024]

6 Scottish Development International, ‘Inward investment continues to deliver for Scotland’, 8 June 2023, URL: https://www.sdi.co.uk/news/inward-investment-continues-to-deliver-for-scotland [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

7 EY, ‘Scotland’s foreign investment grows with record results’, 19 June 2023, URL: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2023/06/scotlands-foreign-investment-grows-with-record-results [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

8 Office for Budget Responsibility, ‘How are our Brexit forecasting assumptions performing?’, URL: https://obr.uk/box/how-are-our-brexit-forecasting-assumptions-performing/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

9 EY, ‘The EY Attractiveness Survey Scotland 2022’, 31 May 2022, URL: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/attractiveness/22/scotland-leads-the-way-for-fdi-investment [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

10 International Monetary Fund, ‘World Economic Outlook: Navigating Global Divergences’, October 2023, URL: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2023/10/10/world-economic-outlook-october-2023 [last accessed 10 January 2024]

11 Higher Education Student Data, URL: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students [last accessed 10 January 2024]

12 Scottish Government, New Deal for Business Group Report on progress and recommendations, 29 June 2023, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/new-deal-business-group-progress-report-recommendations/documents/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

13 Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise.

14 Scottish Development International, ‘Exports provide £1.73 billion boost to Scotland’s economy’, 21 August 2023, URL: https://www.sdi.co.uk/news/exports-provide-173-billion-boost-to-scotland-s-economy [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

15 Scottish Government, ‘Technology sector export plan’, 21 March 2022, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/technology-sector-export-plan/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

16 Scottish Government, ‘Life sciences sector: export plan’, 22 November 2022, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/export-plan-scotlands-life-sciences-sector/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

17 Scottish Government, ‘Actions and next steps - A Trading Nation – framework to grow Scotland’s renewables exports’, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/trading-nation-framework-grow-scotlands-renewables-exports/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

18 HMRC Trade Data, 16 March 2023, URL: https://www.uktradeinfo.com/trade-data/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

19 Energy transition, decarbonisation of transport, software and IT, digital financial services, digital business services, space, healthtech, transformation of chemical industries and food & drink innovation.

20 Space Scotland, ‘Space Sustainability - A Roadmap for Scotland’, 1 March 2023, URL: https://spacescotland.org/developing-a-sustainable-scottish-space-sector/ [last accessed 10 January 2024]

21 Digital Scotland, ‘Scotland’s AI Strategy’, 1 March 2021, URL: https://www.scotlandaistrategy.com/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

22 UNICEF, ‘Policy Guidance: AI for Children’, 1 November 2021, URL: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/reports/policy-guidance-ai-children [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

23 World Economic Forum, ‘Global Risks Report 2023’, 11 January 2023, URL: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

24 State of Nature Partnership, ‘Scotland State of Nature 2023 Report’, 27 September 2023, URL: https://stateofnature.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/TP26056-SoN-Scotland-summary-report-v5-1.pdf.pagespeed.ce.EIp-TYaoGQ.pdf [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

25 Scottish Government, ‘Scotland’s Marine Economic Statistics 2021’, 13 December 2023, URL: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-marine-economic-statistics-2021/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

26 IEA, ‘Global Hydrogen Review 2023’, September 2023, URL: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2023 [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

27 Ipsos, ‘Nation Brands Index 2022: Germany finishes first again with Japan and Canada rounding out the top three nations’, 2 November 2022, URL: https://www.ipsos.com/en/nation-brands-index-2022 [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

28 ICR Research, ‘Literature Review for the Scottish Government’s Scottish Connections (Diaspora) Work’, 20 December 2021’, URL: Supporting documents - Scottish connections (diaspora) work: literature review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

29 Scottish Government, ‘Scotland’s Wellbeing: The Impact of COVID-19’, 18 December 2020, URL: https://nationalperformance.gov.scot/scotlands-wellbeing-impact-covid-19 [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

30 Screen Scotland, ‘The Economic Value of the Screen Sector in Scotland in 2019’, 23 June 2022, URL: https://www.screen.scot/funding-and-support/research/economic-value-of-screen-sector-in-scotland-in-2019 [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

31 Research Excellence Framework, ‘Results and Submissions’, 2021, URL: https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/ [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

32 RAND Europe, ‘Impacts of research from Scottish universities: Analysis of the REF 2021 Impact Case Studies’, 2023, URL: rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2800/RRA2848-1/RAND_RRA2848-1.pdf [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

33 Scottish Funding Council, ‘Scotland’s Research Contribution to National and International Challenges’, 23 March 2022, URL: https://www.sfc.ac.uk/research/impact/scotland-research-contribution-challenges.aspx [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

34 European Commission, ‘Horizon Dashboard’, 2024, URL: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/horizon-dashboard [last accessed: January 2024]

35 Fraser of Allander Institute, ‘The economic impact of university research funding’, 9 November 2023, URL: The economic impact of university research funding | FAI (fraserofallander.org) [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

36 EY, ‘Scotland’s foreign investment grows with record results’, 19 June 2023, URL: https://www.ey.com/en_uk/news/2023/06/scotlands-foreign-investment-grows-with-record-results [last accessed: 10 January 2024]

37 The instruments currently under negotiation through the WHO to respectively strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, and to improve global health security. These are expected to be agreed at the seventy-seventh World Health Assembly in May-June 2024.

38 Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia and Pakistan.