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Can Scotland be the most amazing place for startup companies?This hot-off-the-press story is brought to you by Michael Clouser, Ph.D. Candidate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy, School of Business at the University of Edinburgh. Thanks Mike!

Are you interested in what Governments and Universities might do to both create and help more Start-ups?

A new society is forming at the University of Edinburgh. PhD students Antonio Malfense Fierro and Michael Clouser have launched the society named the “Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, and Research Policy Society of the University of Edinburgh” (for now at least).  The society is for students, researchers, and policy makers who want to learn more about entrepreneurship, knowledge creation and venture (entrepreneurial risk capital in the broader sense) capital supply dynamics. This society was created out of the perceived increased interest amongst students and researchers. While Michael and Antonio are PhD students in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group in the Business School at the University of Edinburgh, the society will be open to the whole range of students at the University.

This society will focus on (more…)

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Launch.ed logoCan you hear them? Yes, it’s the sound of freshers and the rest of the students coming back from their summer holidays. We thought we would ask Hilary Singer from Launch.ed what their plans are this coming semester … (oh and remember to check out their new website!)

LAUNCH.ed/iCUE Event Series

This year, LAUNCH.ed is teaming up with iCUE to offer a series of events to develop your practical entrepreneurship skills. The iCUE Event Series is free, open to all Edinburgh students and recent graduates, and is intended to be an excellent preparation for this year’s business plans. All events will begin at 18:30 with free beer and pizza unless otherwise stated.

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By Michael Clouser, Ph.D. Candidate, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy, School of Business at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland  06 July 2009:  In response to Sunday’s article in the Scotsman “100,000 jobs to go across Scotland in downturn” I would like to first alert the readers of Hi-Tech Scotland, and the public at-large,  to the notion that the downturn may turn out to be more than just a recession that lasts for a short time. The so-called experts who predicted it would be ending about now are now telling us next year this time; and others, who aren’t heard, are predicting much worse? Who knows? But we should prepare for the worse and act as if it is.  The danger in not taking this looming depression into account is that (more…)

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Ah so this is how I look?!?!You may recall an article last month entitled Entrepreneurs: Born, Made, or Destroyed?, where I present the case that we are all born with entrepreneurial spirit and that society gradually beats it out of us. However, unless you looked back weeks later, you would have missed this gem of a comment added by Derek Moeller. I thought it deserved its own post, so his response below:

Entrepreneurship is about change, and change requires lots of failure mixed with the occasional win. For most people, failure is terrifying because they’re worried about what other people will think – whether they be family, customers, investors, employees, or friends.

Kids aren’t burdened with this, because our minds don’t start out with a strong sense of empathy to understand (more…)

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Mark SutherlandOur first guest blogger is StartupCafe regular commenter – Mark Sutherland! Mark is a member of Technical Staff at Cadence Design Systems (this apparently means he writes software for electrical engineers) and previously played Bass Guitar in a band called “Hard Spank”…

A ritual part of Edinburgh’s monthly Tech Meetup is the introductions, where everyone takes a turn to say who they are and what they do. This often feels more like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, so this month I introduced myself as follows: (more…)

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