National Software Strategy for Scotland : The Way Forward : Infrastructure
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National Software Strategy for Scotland : The Way Forward : Infrastructure |
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The first major strategic thrust is intended to develop the Scottish software infrastructure. One key way of developing the infrastructure is to promote key projects that act as the focus for wider support enabling critical mass and creating major nodes in the industry’s structure.
The purpose of this initiative is to increase the Scottish and international profile of Scottish software by providing significant levels of public support to one or two specific projects that develop the Scottish industry in areas recognised as very high growth and high value. For example, it could involve support to projects to develop software for Internet applications or Electronic Commerce.
The initiative would comprise the identification of candidate key areas and the design of a programme of projects to respond to these consisting of research, product development, marketing, and capital investment. The programmes could attract interest from a wide range of Scottish software firms contributions from indigenous user firms and interest from foreign firms not currently engaged in Scottish industry.
The benefits would be twofold, first, Scotland would gain a technological and marketing advantage in a key software area. Second, the critical mass afforded by the high profile projects would attract substantial international interest, assist with the marketing of the technology, and help to provide international marketing channels. A model for this initiative could be the interactive TV trial in Cambridge. It involves co-operation of several local telecoms players but has attracted interest and investment from outside Cambridge9.
High profile Scottish Software projects would compensate for the lack of international recognition and penetration across the portfolio of Scottish software firms.
9 Source: Analysis Publications
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