As the close date nears for applications for a new entrepreneurial support scheme, Edinburgh MSP Gordon Macdonald is pushing the call to all ambitious talented entrepreneurs looking to start up a business in Scotland to apply to the new programme.
The £4 million Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) Unlocking Ambition Enterprise Fellowship Programme, backed by the First Minister, will invest in 20 early-stage high-potential entrepreneurs with innovative projects – providing a dedicated mentor for each Fellow as well as access to professional, financial and entrepreneurial networks.
SNP MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Gordon Macdonald (above), said: “Scotland is rightly proud of our reputation as a nation of innovators, and this is a new and creative opportunity to support our young entrepreneurs, academics and researchers in reaching their potential – and presents the ideal start-up opportunity by supporting promising ideas with the necessary skillsets to build them into successful companies.
“This type of scheme shows the commitment, across the board, to support Scotland in becoming a world-leading entrepreneurial nation. It demonstrates the backing and support available for new ideas in Scotland – and I would encourage anyone from Scotland, the UK and from right across the world to submit ideas which have the potential to be.”
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