{"id":1705,"date":"2026-01-29T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/scotland\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:41:16","slug":"scottish-enterprise-appoints-new-director-of-scaling-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/scotland\/news\/1705-scottish-enterprise-appoints-new-director-of-scaling-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Enterprise appoints new director of scaling innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish Enterprise has appointed Nicola Anderson as its new director of scaling innovation.<\/p>\n<p>She will lead its Scaling Innovation Mission, focused on helping Scottish companies grow faster and translate research and development into globally-competitive businesses of scale across sectors like life sciences, industrial biotechnology, fintech, photonics, quantum and semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>She joins from Fintech Scotland, where she served as chief executive until the end of last year, when she stepped down and was replaced by Aleks Tomczyk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScotland has extraordinary innovation strengths and the global potential to match,\u201d stated Anderson. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to working closely with founders, industry, investors, public sector and academic partners to drive growth, create jobs, unlock essential infrastructure, and open up international market opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jane Martin, managing director of innovation and investment at Scottish Enterprise, added: \u201cThe work she has done in leading Fintech Scotland and its strong partnership with industry to establish a thriving fintech cluster here is something I am looking forward to seeing her build on across multiple key sectors where Scotland has a real internationally competitive edge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our thriving life science clusters pioneering breakthrough treatments that change lives, to deeptech manufacturers engineering AI-enabled robots that redefine industries \u2013 Scotland has some amazing opportunities to build strong industries for the future and our ambition is to support growth for companies even beyond these sectors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy accelerating the growth of scale-ups and supporting the development of innovation regions and clusters, we have a real opportunity to fuel job creation, drive economic transformation and position Scotland internationally as a global leader in the industries of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Fintech Scotland leader will lead a more broad sector push for growing companies 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