| Learning Skills and Well-Being |
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| Supply of education and skills which is responsive to, and aligned with, actions to boost demand. |
Promote skills utilisation and stimulate skills demand from business and industries, support organisational development and leadership development in growth businesses. |
| Creation of the conditions for talented people to live, work and remain in Scotland. |
Attract and retain key talented individuals to Scotland in priority industries, promote Scotland overseas as a place to do business and further your career. |
| Supportive Business Environment |
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| Responsive and focused enterprise support to increase the number of highly successful, competitive businesses. |
Support to growth companies including access to risk capital, leadership skills. |
| Targeted support to business in the pursuit of opportunities outside of Scotland and the development of internationally competitive firms. |
Support high growth companies to internationalise and attract value add to Scotland through Foreign Direct Investment. |
| Broader approach to business innovation in Scotland that moves beyond viewing innovation as the domain of science and technology alone. |
Support innovation in business in products, services and business models. Develop innovation system in key sectors e.g. tourism, financial services. |
| Clear focus on strengthening the link between Scotland’s research base and business innovation and addressing low levels of business research and development. |
Ensure innovation developed in Scotland is exploited by business e.g. Intermediary Technology Institutes, Proof of Concept, Enterprise Fellowships. |
| Particular policy focus on a number of key sectors with high-growth potential and the capacity to boost productivity. |
Focus on the real demands of Priority Industries to ensure growth potential is realised. |
| Infrastructure Development and Place |
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| Focus investment on making connections across and with Scotland better, improving reliability and journey times, seeking to maximise the opportunities for employment, business, leisure and tourism. |
Addressing the demands/ opportunities to growth key sectors pan Scotland. Work with Transport Scotland to Influence transport policy to support growth. |
| Planning and development regime which is joined up, and combines greater certainty and speed of decision making within a framework geared towards achieving good quality sustainable places and sustainable economic growth. |
Support the development of business Infrastructure focused on priority industries and growth companies. Lead on national and regional regeneration to support economic growth. |
| Effective Government |
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| More effective government with a clear focus on achieving higher levels of sustainable economic growth through the delivery of the Purpose and five Strategic Objectives. |
Continue to deliver year on year efficiencies, shared services with Skills Development Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and VisitScotland, greater leverage from private sector. |
| Streamlining the Scottish Government’s direct dealings with business, including better regulation and more efficient procurement practices. |
Procurement policies. |
| Equity |
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| To provide the opportunities – and incentives – for all to contribute to Scotland’s sustainable economic growth. |
Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility with companies and look for win/ wins in all our activities where through supporting growth we can also address equity e.g. LOAN (linking opportunity and need), support social enterprises with growth potential. |
| To accord greater priority to achieving more balanced growth across Scotland, to give all across Scotland the chance to succeed. |
Lead on national business infrastructure e.g. Clyde Waterfront, and support growth in rural economies e.g. tourism potential in rural areas. |
| To promote economic growth and environmental quality and responsibility as mutually advancing. |
Actively support the development of a renewable energy industry (e.g. wind, wave, bio-fuels, waste management). Support growth businesses to achieve growth through business resource efficiency and waste minimisation. |
