Recent Alba news

Representatives from the UK’s leading environmental, climate change and energy bodies and organisations are to join industry colleagues and academic experts at Heriot-Watt University in the New Year, to discuss the challenges of effectively managing environmental risk.

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The Starter for 6 programme is funded through the Creative Scotland Innovation Fund and is administrated by the Cultural Enterprise Office. The programme is specifically aimed at helping the development of seed and start-up arts and creative sector businesses in Scotland, delivering practical support and training to enable the planning and development of a viable business plan to the point where the business is ready to start up.

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An interactive fitness game, Funky Cones, aimed at combating obesity in children has slimmed the wallets of two Dragons' Den investors by a whopping £120,000.

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Scottish telecoms company CIQUAL has been named Britain's top performing company to graduate from a business incubation centre.

CIQUAL and Alba Innovation Centre jointly entered the UKBI (UK Business Incubation) annual awards in the Graduated Business of the Year Category and lifted the prestigious title.  This new award was introduced to recognise those businesses who have successfully been through the business incubation process and are now flourishing outside the Business Incubator but are still engaging and contributing to it.

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A Scottish company providing innovative business incubation services for fledging technology companies has been acclaimed as a model for the industry across Britain.

The praise for Innovation Centres Scotland (ICS) has come from the industry body UK Business Incubation (UKBI) who benchmarked their operations against its new accreditation standard.

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