His comments underline the importance of ensuring that Scotland retains secure and reliable access to the technologies our economy and public services rely on, particularly in circumstances where those technologies were created as a result of Scottish innovation.While decisions on mergers and acquisitions are reserved to the UK Government, our National Strategy for Economic Transformation sets out how Scotland is strengthening its own capacity — by investing in skills, high growth entrepreneurship, commercialisation of research, emerging industrial clusters and access to finance — so that innovative companies can grow and anchor here, reducing strategic dependency while remaining globally connected. S6W...