{"id":31436,"date":"2026-06-19T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=31436"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T10:43:38","slug":"hunter-calls-for-end-to-clutter-of-advice-bodies-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=31436","title":{"rendered":"Hunter calls for end to &#8216;clutter&#8217; of advice bodies \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Tom-Hunter-at-Edge.png\" alt=\"Sir Tom Hunter\" class=\"wp-image-123345 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Tom-Hunter-at-Edge.png\" alt=\"Sir Tom Hunter\" class=\"wp-image-123345 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Tom-Hunter-at-Edge.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Tom-Hunter-at-Edge-600x420.png 600w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Tom-Hunter-at-Edge-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sir-Tom-Hunter-at-Edge-768x538.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Sir Tom Hunter: sort out the confusion (pic: contributed)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Tom Hunter last night repeated his call for the new Scottish government to \u201csort out\u201d the business support landscape to make it less confusing for startup entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He made his appeal as 32 early stage enterprises shared \u00a31.4 million in grants in the latest round of the Scottish Edge pitching competition to develop their ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cScottish Edge demonstrates the massive economic potential of Scotland\u2019s entrepreneurs \u2013 congratulations to them, one and all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe landscape of support for them going forward, however, is both cluttered and confusing, hence I hope our new Government sorts that out so these and thousands of other entrepreneurs can accelerate their growth and economic contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tom Arthur, Minister for Business and Fair Work, attended the event and, after praising the recipients, he reaffirmed the Scottish Government\u2019s commitment to backing entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">MedAscend, an AI platform for healthcare students, received the top prize of \u00a3150,000. Other recipients included Nudge Innovations (\u00a390,000),  GreenFlip (\u00a390,000) and Real-E-Racing (\u00a380,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">XYNQ took top spot amongst the pre-trading businesses, securing a grant of \u00a315,000. Young Edge, the category recognising companies whose directors are all under 30, awarded grants to ten companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The main sponsors of Scottish Edge are The Hunter Foundation, Royal Bank of Scotland, the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise, each of whom have provided financial and operational support of the initiative since its inception.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Hunter #calls #clutter #advice #bodies #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Tom Hunter: sort out the c&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[119,7809,266,581,18255,265,9870,18253,18254,4744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}