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The organisation was created by the passing of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 [2] and inherited the functions of Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council on 1 July 2010. An interim company, Creative Scotland 2009, was set up to assist the transition from the existing organisations. Creative Scotland has the general ...
Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834) [20] Dock design improvements: John Rennie (1761–1821) [21] Crane design improvements: James Bremner (1784–1856) [22] "Trac Rail Transposer", a machine to lay rail track patented in 2005, used by Network Rail in the United Kingdom and the New York City Subway in the United States. [23] [24] [25]
The Six Cities Design Festival is an international design festival that takes place simultaneously in Scotland's six cities: Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, and Stirling. 2007 is the Festival's inaugural year; a main festival period of over 300 public exhibitions and events ran from 17 May — 3 June.
The Scottish Science Advisory Council is a government organisation that is Scotland's highest level advisory body for science, engineering and technology. The group of experts provide independent advice to the Scottish Government. Members are appointed by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning.
The purpose of the program is to bring experts together in different fields within the concept of design business management. The objective of the IDBM program is to train skilled professionals for key roles in international design business. The program emphasizes the importance of design as a competitive factor among others, such as technology.
The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by royal charter. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better". [ 7 ]
By the time the Scottish Office was formed in 1885, a number of institutions of government existed exclusively for Scotland: the Board of Supervision for Poor Relief which had been established in 1828, the Fishery Board which had been limited to Scotland in 1849, the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy (established in 1857), the Scotch Education Department (established in 1872), and the ...
Scottish Enterprise was created on 1 April 1991 under the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990. [6] That act dissolved the Scottish Development Agency (SDA), created in 1975 and the Highlands and Islands Development Board forming Scottish Enterprise alongside Highlands and Islands Enterprise .