Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise supports businesses in Scotland with guidance, funding and specialist advisers. Its current messaging centres on sustainability and reaching net zero, while also helping firms deal with rising operating costs and changing trade rules.

What Scottish Enterprise offers

• Product and service development: innovation advisers and specialists, access to research and development funding, and connections to an innovation network.
• Grants: support for activities from creating new products to hiring staff or exporting, open to small and larger firms.
• Exporting support: guides, international market research and advisory services for firms starting to sell abroad.
• Workplace innovation: services and good-practice guidance to improve productivity and staff engagement.
• Sustainability advice: help with efficiency, resilience and low-carbon opportunities.

Clients

Businesses of any size, location or sector in Scotland. Its partner Business Gateway supports new start-ups, and the Find Business Support website collects public-sector help in one place.

Key facts

• Based in: Scotland
• Also covers: guidance on sanctions affecting trade with Russia and Ukraine, and on the effects of leaving the EU