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These included the climate and biodiversity crises, rapid societal and industrial change including increased use of artificial intelligence, perceptions of public services as reactive and siloed rather than preventative and collaborative, and political pressures linked to short-term funding and electoral cycles.
However, the current legal challenges primarily relate to only the novel types of digital assets which have emerged with the use of DLT.
At the same time, there is rapid technological development and emergence of further types of assets and systems.
The Committee asks the Scottish Government whether relevant agencies have a good understanding of the state of businesses so that they can identify support that may be required by employees at risk of redundancy, to allow rapid retraining and redeployment of staff from declining sectors to expanding sectors.
As has been discussed in earlier sections of this briefing, trade-related issues as a result of Brexit, as well as rapid changes to food consumption patterns during the pandemic restrictions resulted in a changed context.
The advent of privatisation and liberalisation in the energy market changed not only the deal for customers, but the whole strategic planning of the market; indeed, it led to the rapid transformation of the sourcing of gas by power stations for electricity.
It can take a long time to meet skill shortages and there is a grave danger that by the time those shortages are met they will have disappeared. We need only consider the rapid change that has taken place at Motorola.
Why, then, cannot we create an atmosphere that would allow us to match that in the state sector?Rapid curricular changes in schools and the associated work load have led to a reduction in the time that staff can offer to school sport.
A mixture of science and common sense should mean that a rapid improvement in spawning rates could be achieved quickly.We must then turn to conserving greater numbers of juvenile fish.
We have additional problems of geography. We have been able to make more rapid progress in dealing with other care groups, for whom there has been additional funding.