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What support you’ll receive
You can access a full range of support and funding if you're a startup, scale-up, or an international investor.
You’ll benefit from:
- Expert help to set up and diversify your business
- Tailored support to fuel your growth
- Access to tax incentives, including R&D (Research and Development) grants
- Help connecting with academia, talent and research hubs
- Access to industry networks, potential suppliers, partners and customers
- Location insights to find your perfect business site and premises
- Connections with Scotland’s Innovation Centres and key sectors
National and regional enterprise agencies
Tourists and visitors from around the world value the friendliness and welcome that await them in Scotland. Our enterprise agencies work hard to make sure companies like yours enjoy that same Scottish welcome when they choose to do business here.
Scottish Enterprise (scottishenterprise.com), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (hie.co.uk) and South of Scotland Enterprise (southofscotlandenterprise.com) provide many of these vital business support services. They will help you to maximise new international markets from your base in Scotland.
International investment support
The global arm of Scotland’s national economic development agency, Scottish Enterprise, is Scottish Development International (sdi.co.uk). SDI will help you to maximise Scotland’s investment opportunities through its network of global offices, resourced by industry experts.
Talent and immigration support
If you’re an employer based in Scotland, you can find out more information on employing overseas people from Scotland's Migration Service for Employers and Investors (migrationservice.scotland.org)