EDAS Future Leaders Network: Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
In March 2025, the EDAS Future Leaders Network hosted an event on Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development to celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. The event had three […]
Community Wealth Building Bill is published!
By Neil McInroy The recently published Scottish Community Wealth Building Bill will be a welcome, progressive and powerful addition to economic development in Scotland. At present, Community Wealth Building (CWB) […]
Blog: Inclusive Growth Weighting
Inclusive Growth Weighting Economic disadvantage and opportunity vary by location within any region and such variation is particularly pronounced within the Highlands and Islands. Representing over half of Scotland’s land […]
Managing the change to mission-based economic development
Earlier this year, Scottish Enterprise adopted missions to signal its new strategic approach to deliver more transformative outcomes, inspired by the work of Mariana Mazzucato and colleagues at UCL. So […]
Economic Development matters: Building a successful Scottish economy
With a new Scottish First Minister and Cabinet team, the economy has come into renewed focus. Economic Development (ED) is and will remain crucial to Scotland’s Economic Future. ED is […]
Something in the Air
The final workshop of a SUII supported project looking at developing regional innovation strategies featured a presentation from Peter Wostner from the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development in Slovenia. […]
Blog: Building and/or boosting – Bidenomics and place based policies
I recently attended an EPRC webinar featuring Grete Gansauer, a researcher at Montana State University. The webinar was an opportunity for Grete to share her analysis of the place based […]
A message from the EDAS Chair
Hello! 2023 is coming to an end and it is time to reflect on another busy and successful year for EDAS, and look toward 2024 and beyond. As incoming Chair […]
Future Leaders Network introduced at Glasgow University Careers Conference
A colleague and I from Scottish Enterprise recently attended Glasgow University’s Economics careers conference where we gave a presentation to the final year economics students on EDAS, careers in economic […]
EDAS blog: It’s getting crowded in here
Public investment in a proactive industrial policy that aims to promote particular sectors is sometimes criticised for crowding out private investment. However, a recent White House blog by Heather Boushey, […]