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Graham Stewart with the stories and issues making the news in business.

Graham Stewart with the stories and issues making the news in business from Scotland, the UK and around the world.

The Business: 06/12/2009

06/12/2009

BBC Radio Scotland - The Business, 06/12/2009

Why Scotland is bucking the UK trend for start-up investment, and what next for Dubai?

Graham Stewart finds out why Scotland is  bucking the UK trend for start-up investment. And we examine the problems facing Dubai's economy.

Presented by Graham Stewart.

Neil Ross, Scottish Venture Fund Director at Scottish Enterprise, tells us why Scotland's equity investment market is outperforming the rest of the UK.

Joe Henry, co-founder of Planys, which specialises in the commercialisation of new technology, and one of his clients, Gillian Watson, managing director of Giltech, explain how to turn clever ideas into a real business.

Reporter Huw Williams presents his notebook from Dubai on the emirate's financial problems.  And Jim Sillars, former assistant secretary-general to The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, gives us his assessment of the scale of the problem.

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