These include:The SCoRe and SEEKIT initiatives which support collaborative,pre-competitive R&D, jointly undertaken between SMEs and public sector sciencebase as well as enhancing public sector research organisations’ ability to workwith business;The highly successful R&D grants under SMART/SPUR/SPURplus aimed at small and medium sized enterprises, researchers and prospective entrepreneurs,which are now at record levels;The Proof of Conceptfund of £40 million fills a funding gap aimed at a pre-development conceptual phaseof high risk projects;The Scottish Co-investment Fund (£45 million) and ScottishProposal Assistance...