1. Creating Investment Ready Cities
CEE Summit, Warsaw
Dr Stuart Black

2. Scottish Cities Alliance

3. Scottish Cities Alliance
Partnership 7 cities and
Scottish Government
53% of population (2.86m)
61% of jobs (1.51m)
67% GVA (£82.8bn)
57% share of exports

4. Attracting Investment : Infrastructure
“One Scotland” approach
Scottish Cities Alliance Investment Pitch Book £7.5bn
One of the major objective’s of the Alliance is to help attract the international investment into infrastructure in cities that enable them to remain globally competitive. By working collaboratively, Scotland’s seven cities through the Alliance, have identified a range of large scale high value propositions in residential property, hotel, leisure and office development which are of interest to international investors.
In order to provide an international platform for these developments, the Scottish Cities Alliance has created a new investment Pitch Book, which was launched at MIPIM Cannes last month. This showcases over £7.5 billion of these exciting investor ready opportunities across Scotland’s cities, and there is ongoing dialogue with a number of investors on a number of these opportunities and this can be found on our website.
Looking to the future, the Alliance is looking at new propositions around private rented sector housing and assisted living to add to the cities offering – both of which have significant market interest as well as opportunities for integrating low carbon and smart activity to create added value for investors and Scottish businesses.

5. Reasons for Investing in Scotland
Property
Strength of legal system
Transparent planning system
Secure lease structure
Cost and availability of real estate
Wider economic factors
Availability of skilled labour
Transport infrastructure
Availability of business partners and suppliers
Telecoms and technology infrastructure

6. Aberdeen
City Centre
ePark

7. V&A Museum

8. Edinburgh
BioQuarter
International Business Gateway

9. Glasgow Magenta at Clyde Gateway
International Financial Services District

10. Inverness
Campus
Airport Business Park

11. Perth
Broxden Development
Food & Drink Park

12. Stirling
City Centre
Kildean Business Park

13. Smart Cities Scotland Unique inter-city approach
Projects include energy management, smart- mobility, smart-waste and data clusters
ERDF funding of £10m
Total programme value £24m
Scotland-wide identity enables Scotland’s cities to access opportunities of scale for investment;
Dynamic market place for smart city projects and solutions in Scotland;
Promoting Scotland’s cities unique inter-city approach to developing Smart City solutions; and
Encourage and catalyse investment to build Scottish smart cities that can support increased business productivity.

14. Innovation Hubs Aberdeen – ABVenture Zone, Elevator UK,
OGIC, The Data Lab
Dundee – Dundee Maker Space,
Fleet Collective, Seabrase Zone,
Vision Building
Edinburgh - Codebase, Creative Exchange,
BioQuarter, Techcube, The Data Lab
Glasgow – Tontine House, Glasgow University
Imaging Centre of Excellence, MediCity,
IBioIC, Strathclyde Technology and
Innovation Centre, CENSIS, SMS-IC,
The Data Lab
Inverness – An Lóchran House, Aurora House, Centre for Health Science
Perth – Creative Exchange Perth
Stirling – Digital District, Scottish Aquaculture
Innovation Centre

15. EY Attractiveness Survey 2017
Record number of 122 projects in Scotland 2016
UK’s 2nd most attractive destination outside London
Scotland 2016 UK leader for attracting R&D projects
U.S. is the primary source of investment in Scotland
£1.2bn overseas investment in Scottish property in 2016*
*Source: Scottish Business Insider
2016 exceeded the previous 10 year high set in 2015 – from 119 in 2015 to 122 in 2016
US primary source of investment in Scotland - representing 43 projects in 2016.

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