Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Scottish Co-Investment Fund

The Co-Investment fund has been extremely positive but is not as appreciated here in Scotland compared with other parts of the world where development agencies have actually reproduced the system in part or as a whole. At home familiarity seems to breed contempt and he warned that Scotland is in danger of losing sight of just how helpful it is for fast growth companies who are struggling to leverage themselves.
EIE11 keynote speaker Henry Chesbrough, executive director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at California’s UC Berkley Haas School of Business, called on the Scottish Government to provide more, not less, financial leverage for start-ups and growing companies.