Shaping Scotland's Economy: Scotland's Inward Investment Plan
Posted on October 28 2020 at 14:34
A new inward investment plan which aims to attract high quality jobs across a range of key economic sectors has been published by Scottish Government.
Shaping Scotland’s Economy: Scotland’s Inward Investment Plan was unveiled in Parliament by Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation Ivan McKee.
The plan offers a fundamental shift in approach and focuses efforts on nine opportunity areas where Scotland has global strengths and which offer strong future prospects.
The nine opportunity areas are:
- Energy transition
- Decarbonisation of Transport
- Software and IT
- Digital Financial Services
- Digital Business Services
- Space
- Healthtech
- Transformation of Chemical Industries
- Food & Drink Innovation
The paper makes reference to the Spanish train manufacturer Talgo that has announced plans
to locate a proposed major new train manufacturing
facility at Longannet in Fife, supporting the creation
of around 1,000 direct high value manufacturing
jobs and providing new opportunities to develop a
cluster of low carbon rail innovation and supply chain
companies around this major investment. Longannet
offers the opportunity to develop a physical focal point
for this clustering of rail skills, innovation, test and
demonstration and supply chain activities on a site
with excellent rail and port connectivity.
Read more here.
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