Nicola Sturgeon announced the outline for the Unlocking Ambition Challenge at the Startup Summit event in Edinburgh PA:Press AssociationA scheme to attract the brightest entrepreneurs to Scotland is getting £4 million of public money. Nicola Sturgeon announced the outline for the Unlocking Ambition Challenge at the Startup Summit event in Edinburgh yesterday. The project hopes to bring up to 40 people with ideas for businesses onto a 12-month development programme. Applicants can come from anywhere in the world but must commit to moving to Scotland as well as showing how their idea can create jobs and benefit society here. The first minister said: “We want to ensure the most talented entrepreneurs, from Scotland and elsewhere, have the best opportunities to develop their ideas here, bring them to market and create the successful new companies we need for our economy to continue to grow.

Source: The Times November 02, 2017 00:02 UTC