Starting A Business In Edinburgh
If you’re inspired to start up a new business
after graduating, there’s lots of support and advice
available. Visit the Business Gateway
website to find out about the loans, grants and
advice available to help set you off in the right direction.
Why start a business in the Edinburgh City Region?
- Edinburgh has been named the fourth "Best Place To Do Business
in Britain" by the UK-wide "Growing Business"
magazine
- Edinburgh is increasingly identified as a knowledge city and as
an ‘ideopolis’. Factors such as Edinburgh’s highly educated
workforce and the concentration of knowledge intensive industries
have placed Edinburgh alongside London as one of only two
ideopolises in the UK
- Edinburgh enjoyed the greatest economic growth of any UK city
between 2002 and 2005. Research predicts that output growth in
Edinburgh will even outperform London between 2004 and 2010
- Edinburgh workers are Scotland’s most productive. The Capital's
hard-working employees each generate £25,900-a-year, the third
highest figure in the UK
- The Edinburgh City Region received the Award of Excellence for
Innovative Regions from the European Commission in 2002. This
accolade recognises outstanding research undertaken, as well as
acknowledging the support available in the city region to
commercialise research and develop small companies with high-growth
potential
- East Lothian is known for the strength of the small
business sector where small businesses employ a greater proportion
of all workers compared to Scotland as a whole
- In the wider city region, fast-growing Stirling has the highest
level of business start-ups and a business survival rate ahead of
the national average.
