A Smart, Successful Scotland
The Executive's overarching approach to growing the Scottish economy was set out in our Framework for Economic Development (originally published in June 2000 and updated in September 2004). Our key delivery agencies for economic development are the Enterprise Networks (Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise).
Our enterprise strategy, A Smart, Successful Scotland (SSS) (originally published in January 2001) was refreshed in November 2004 and provides the Enterprise Networks with a clear strategic direction. At the time of the refresh, the then Minister for Enterprise, Jim Wallace, wrote to both Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise to outline the main changes in emphasis within SSS.
We have published a Race Equality Impact Assessment for the refreshed SSS strategy, which also covers the Green jobs strategy.
A Smart, Successful Scotland highlights the priority areas in which Scotland must develop in order to achieve medium to long term economic success, grouping them into three strategic themes:
- Growing Businesses
- Global Connections
- Skills and Learning
Highlands and Islands Enterprise have applied the themes of SSS to the Highlands and Islands, taking into account the distinct challenges facing the region in their own document, A Smart Successful Highlands and Islands.
A key aspect of SSS is the focus on regeneration. The Enterprise Networks have a leading role in large-scale regeneration projects and play an important supporting role in smaller community regeneration projects, alongside Communities Scotland. When the Scottish Executive's policy statement on regeneration - People and Place - was launched, Nicol Stephen wrote to Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise to highlight the key points in the statement and to emphasise the importance of their respective contributions to regeneration.