Shaping Scotland's economy: inward investment plan

Shaping Scotland’s Economy: Scotland’s Inward Investment Plan sets out our ambition for Scotland as a leading destination for inward investment aligned with our values as a nation.


Footnotes

1 The Fourth Industrial Revolution

2 ECB Economic Bulletin Issue 1, 2020

3 Scottish Annual Business Statistics 2018

4 Business Enterprise Research and Development statistics

5 Export Statistics Scotland

6 Revenue refers to a mixture of Devolved Taxes, and those reserved to the UK Government. Revenue measured in 2019-20 prices.

7 2017/18 HESA data

8 As above

9 Scotland’s Future Skills Action Plan

10 As above

11 As above

12 National Indicator Performance

13 Foreign Direct Investment: A Methods Comparison of ONS and Externally Produced Estimates

14 Scottish Annual Business Statistics 2018, note that this survey excludes the public and financial sectors and some parts of agriculture

15 Business Enterprise Research and Development statistics

16 Export Statistics Scotland

17 EY Scotland Attractiveness Survey 2020

18 SDI

19 Department for International Trade, ‘Estimating the economic impacts of fDi to support DIT’s promotion strategy’

20 Source: https://www.portoffelixstowe.co.uk/

21 On average, Scottish organisations leverage around Euros 100 million per annum from the EU’s Horizon 2020 funding pot

22 World Investment Report 2020

23 OECD

24 https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-a-trading-nation/

25 Dunning (1993)

26 EY UK Attractiveness Survey 2020

27 The pool of comparator countries vary by indicator. By way of example, the universities indicator is compared with 26 global countries, whereas the R&D indicator is compared with the OECD countries. Data did not allow for comparison against the same group of countries for each indicator without severely limiting the pool or comparators.

28 Analysis by the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser of the Scottish Government

29 Scotland’s Future Skills Action Plan

30 As above

31 As above

32 National Indicator Performance

33 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2019

34 2017/18 HESA data

35 2017/18 HESA data

36 https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0054/00545826.pdf

37 https://www.sdi.co.uk/media/1747/why-scotland-document.pdf

38 fDi’s European Cities and Regions of the Future 2020/21 – Winners https://www.fDiintelligence.com/article/76767

39 https://www.gov.scot/publications/gdp-quarterly-national-accounts-for-scotland-2020-q1/

40 Scottish Development International, Infrastructure and Connectivity https://www.sdi.co.uk/business-in-scotland/infrastructure-and-connectivity

41 Local Broadband Information - Scotland

42 https://thefishsite.com/articles/new-record-for-scottish-salmon-exports-1

43 Mapping the world’s prices 2019

44 Glasgow Named the Best City in the UK for Millennials

45 Expatistan Cost of Living Calculator – July 2020

46 Business Cluster Specialisations in the Highlands and Islands 2017

47 https://www.gov.scot/groups/wellbeing-economy-governments-wego/

48 fDi Markets, a service from The Financial Times Limited (2020). All Rights Reserved

49 fDi Markets, a service from The Financial Times Limited (2020). All Rights Reserved

50 fDi Markets, a service from The Financial Times Limited (2020). All Rights Reserved

51 EY UK Attractiveness Survey 2020

52 Scottish Government Input-Output Tables

53 Department for International Trade, “Estimating the economic impact of fDi to support the Department for International Trade’s promotion strategy”,
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/estimating-the-economic-impact-of-fDi-to-support-dits-promotion-strategy-analytical-report

54 NESTA, Mapping Innovation in Scotland Findings 2019

55 Business enterprise research and development statistics: 2017, Scottish Government, https://www.gov.scot/publications/business-enterprise-research-and-development/

56 Scottish Annual Business Survey

57 Scottish Annual Business Survey

58 Scottish regional employment statistics

59 Scottish government Urban-Rural Classification

60 Scottish Natural Capital Accounts

61 Scottish Labour Market Statistics

62 UK research on clusters

63 https://nationalperformance.gov.scot/

64 https://www.wavteq.com/

65 Committee On Climate Change

66 Scottish Government Climate Change Policy

67 Scotland’s AI Strategy

68 Scotland’s Digital Technologies Summary Report 2019

69 https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-life-sciences-sector-support/

70 https://www.dumgal.gov.uk/media/21038/Food-and-Drink-Strategy-2019/pdf/DG-Food-and-Drink-Strategy-2019-2022.pdf?m=636879000723530000

71 https://www.totalizemedia.co.uk/casestudy/naturallydg/

72 EY Scotland Attractiveness Survey 2020

73 Towards a Robust, Resilient Wellbeing Economy for Scotland: Report of the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery

74 City Region Deals

75 SOSE

76 EY UK Attractiveness Survey 2020

77 Tackling the Technology Gender Gap Together

Contact

Email: inwardinvestment@gov.scot

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