Capital investment
Is the energy sector at a turning point?
Author / Creator: Fraser of Allander Institute
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
The [energy] investment environment in the UK is extremely difficult. Projects are stalling, being shelved, scaled down.
Angel Investment in Scotland 2018-2023
Author / Creator: Niall G MacKenzie
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Angel investment is the riskiest form of capital investment in companies.
These traps awaiting us in 2026 must be carefully avoided
Author / Creator: Tommy Sheppard
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2025
The notion of exclusion, being a loser in the division of life’s spoils, is a powerful driver in contemporary politics.
Community benefits from natural capital investment; Route map
Author / Creator: Scottish Land Commission
Media type: Guide
Date published: 2025
This Route Map has been created as a guide for how to discuss and embed proportionate community benefits in natural capital projects, ideally from the outset.
How foreign ownership drains Scotland’s wealth
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Research
Date published:
This paper examines data published by the Scottish Government on Scotland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI) which lays out the extend to which the profits from foreign-owned companies in Scotland are extracted outwith Scotland, how it is done and where the profits go.
Scotland's productivity gap with international countries: research
Author / Creator: Ana Rincon-Aznar
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Scotland’s labour productivity gap with the top performing EU comparator region was close to 30% over the period 2009 - 2017. There are productivity gaps across all of capital, labour quality and total factor productivity.