Direct Foreign Investment

How foreign ownership drains Scotland’s wealth

Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell

Media type: Research

Date published:

This paper examines data published by the Scottish Government on Scotland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI) which lays out the extend to which the profits from foreign-owned companies in Scotland are extracted outwith Scotland, how it is done and where the profits go.


International Scotland

Author / Creator: Adam McGeoch

Media type: Report

Date published: 2022

Scotland on the international stage relating to 

■ Business, Trade, and Tourism in Scotland

■  Invest in Scotland

■ Scotland’s Transition to Net-zero


Scotland's productivity gap with international countries: research

Author / Creator: Ana Rincon-Aznar

Media type: Report

Date published: 2022

Scotland’s labour productivity gap with the top performing EU comparator region was close to 30% over the period 2009 - 2017.  There are productivity gaps across all of capital, labour quality and total factor productivity.