Equity
We will concentrate on activities that both further the sustainable economic growth agenda and contribute to the broad strategic objectives of sustainability, social and regional equity – a “win:win” approach.
These activities will be delivered “mainstream” as part of our approach to enterprise, innovation and investment, building on the expertise built up in Scottish Enterprise over the last few years. We will:
- Promote the growth of a “low-carbon economy” through support for resource efficiency, the development and use of cleaner technologies linked to priority industries and an approach to business infrastructure investment that helps mitigate climate change;
- Promote Corporate Social Responsibility and support for growing social enterprises through our company work and the use of LOAN (Linking Opportunity and Need) in business infrastructure investments. LOAN is a partnership approach which seeks to ensure unemployed people in an area can access training and job opportunities provided by infrastructure projects;
- Support rural growth businesses and aid rural economic diversification;
- Carry out Equality Impact Assessments (EIA) on our projects and programmes to mitigate against any potential negative impacts across all aspects of equality.
Under sustainability we will contribute to the Government’s Greener Strategic Objective ‘to improve Scotland’s natural and built environment and the sustainable use and enjoyment of it’ through:
- Helping the businesses we work with to understand the consequences of their business decisions on the environment;
- Promoting and developing with those businesses opportunities to make a positive contribution to the sustainability agenda.