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    • Business plan 2008-2011
      • Contribution to the Government’s purpose
        • Investment
          • Attracting more risk capital to invest
          • Business infrastructure
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Investment

Address gaps in access to capital that are constraining Scottish businesses from reaching their full potential, while helping to build capacity in the investment community to remove barriers to investment.
The strategy should not be to pick individual companies as winners – the market does that. Rather, the job of government should be to facilitate and accelerate the growth sectors and to provide the necessary environment to make sure that it happens in Scotland.*

Businesses need access to appropriate property, markets and finance to enable them to grow.

Scottish Enterprise will help to create the best possible conditions for priority industries and businesses with growth potential to access these. Our primary focus in investment is to reduce the barriers to achieving sustainable growth in Scotland.

The following objectives will focus our activities on where they can add most value:

• Increasing leverage from public funds by attracting more risk capital to invest in Scotland;
• Creating the best possible business infrastructure to promote the growth of our priority industries and high growth businesses;
• Attracting specialist partners to invest in priority industries including infrastructure, direct investments and collaborative projects.

To achieve these objectives, priority will be given to the following activities:

• Attracting More Risk Capital to Invest
• Business Infrastructure