National innovation strategy 2023 to 2033

Footnotes

1 Scotland’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 Shaping Scotland’s economy: inward investment plan - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3 Investing with Purpose: global capital investment plan - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4 Helping Scottish businesses to export - A Trading Nation (mygov.scot)

5 Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

6 Scottish technology ecosystem: review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

7 The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (legislation.gov.uk)

8 Scotland’s Innovation Strategy Economic Evidence Paper

9 The UK Innovation Survey defines businesses as being ‘innovation-active’ if they have undertaken one of the following activities outlined in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) definition of innovation in the Oslo Manual 2018: The introduction of a new or significantly improved product (good or service) or process; Engagement in innovation projects not yet complete, scaled back, or abandoned; New and significantly improved forms of organisation, business structures or practices, and marketing concepts or strategies.

10 UK Innovation Survey 2021 Report (publishing.service.gov.uk)

11 Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan (www.gov.scot)

12 The Campbell Report: a roadmap to investment for health innovation life sciences and healthtech - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

13 Scottish technology ecosystem: review - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14 https://www.scottishai.com/

15 https://www.gov.scot/publications/a-changing-nation-how-scotland-will-thrive-in-a-digital-world

16 Supporting documents - Investing with Purpose: global capital investment plan - gov.scot (www.gov.scot), p.16.

17 Pathways: A New Approach for Women in Entrepreneurship

18 Scotland’s Innovation Strategy Economic Evidence Paper

19 2019/20 represents the most recent FY with minimal impact to funding steams from the COVID-19 pandemic. These figures pre-date the establishment of both SoSE and the Bank.

20 Investing in Ambition. Scotland’s Risk Capital Market in Context-2021 (scottish-enterprise.com)

21 UK Innovation Survey 2021: Statistical Annex, table 1, row 17

22 UK Innovation Strategy, 2020, quoted in Scotland’s Innovation Strategy: Call for Evidence: Economic Evidence Paper, Scottish Government, 2022.

23 UK Innovation Survey 2021: Statistical Annex, table 2, row 17.

24 UK Innovation Survey 2021: Statistical Annex table 8c, rows 7 and 17.

25 Fraser of Allander Scottish Business Monitor Q1, 2022.

26 High Growth Firms | Nesta.

27 Digital Dividend: Policies to Harness the Productivity Potential of Digital Technologies | OECD Economic Policy Papers | OECD iLibrary (oecd-ilibrary.org.

28 Firm-level productivity growth returns of social capital: Evidence from Western Europe - Ganau - Journal of Regional Science - Wiley Online Library

29 European Innovation Scoreboard

30 UK Innovation Survey 2021 Report (publishing.service.gov.uk)

31 Regions in this case have been combined into; Wales, Northern Ireland, North (North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber), Midlands and South West (East Midlands, West Midlands, South West), East of England, London and South East.

32 See 31 above