A CLOSER LOOK AT SCOTLAND
OUR CREATIVE
INDUSTRIES
HOME TO
GENERATE OVER
A YEAR
£5bn
DIRECT FLIGHTS
A DYNAMIC
HERITAGE SITES
SALMONST
WAS
THE 1
FOREIGN PRODUCT
TO GAIN FRANCE’S
PRESTIGIOUS
‘LABEL ROUGE’
QUALITY MARK
5
FOR OUR ECONOMY
£2.3bn
CONTRIBUTED
TO OUR ECONOMY BY OUR
HISTORIC
ENVIRONMENT
WHICH ALSO SUPPORTS
60,000
FTE EMPLOYEES
5.8
OUT OF 7
FOR UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY
COLLABORATION IN
FIVE WORLD
SCOTTISH
SCORED
TO OVER 32
COUNTRIES
110 MINUTES
FROM PARIS
75 MINUTES
FROM LONDON
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
ABOVE OECD COUNTRIES
SUCH AS USA,
GERMANY AND JAPAN
ENVIRONMENT
OF OVER 100 GAMES
COMPANIES THAT HELP SPAWN
GLOBAL
HITS
SUCH AS LEMMINGS AND
GRAND THEFT
AUTO SERIES
IN THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD
8,400
NUMBER OF JOBS
GENERATED BY
THE SCOTTISH
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
IN
2015-16
SCOTLAND
OVER
ELECTRICIT Y
CONSUMPTION
200
CULTURE
FESTIVALS
ALREADY
GENERATES
%
49.7
OF ITS GROSS
FROM RENEWABLES
AND IS WORLD
LEADER IN THE
FAST GROWING
GREEN
TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
38
SCOTLAND
IS THE MOST HIGHLY
EDUCATED COUNTRY
BOTTLES OF
SCOTCH WHISKY
ARE SHIPPED OVERSEAS
EACH SECOND
2000
IN
EUROPE
ACCORDING TO THE OFFICE
FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS
WITH THE PROPORTION OF
THE POPULATION GOING
INTO HIGHER AND FURTHER
EDUCATION, BEING ONE OF
TOP
THE HIGHEST IN
100
THE WORLD
D U N D E E,
OF ALL UK
FOOD AND DRINK
EXPORTS
THE UNIVERSITIES OF
A B E R D E E N,
EDINBURGH,
SCOTCH
W
HISK
Y
ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST
¼
GLASGOW AND
ST ANDREWS
ARE RATED AMONGST
THE TOP 100 BEST
SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS
IN THE WORLD
MORE SCOTCH
WHISKY
IS SOLD IN
1IN MONTH
FRANCE THAN
COGNAC IN A YEAR
FOR SCIENTISTS
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