Sectors
The pillars of our investment
promotion strategy are
People, Place, Planet & Prosperity
Highland is a vibrant region offering a thriving economy and a wealth of natural assets. As rich in development opportunities as it is culture and heritage, the region offers an ideal location to live, work and invest.
Green Freeport
The Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport is a global hub for trade, investment, and innovation and benefits from a favourable environment and exciting opportunities for businesses to grow.
Clean
Energy
The powerhouse of Europe for offshore and onshore renewable energy and low carbon projects.
Sustainable Tourism
The Highlands is the backbone of Scotland’s booming tourism industry worth over £2.2bn annually, it’s full of opportunities.
Space
Scotland’s northern geography and low population base provide the perfect conditions to launch commercial satellites into low earth polar and sun synchronous orbits.
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Life Science
The Life Sciences Industry in Scotland is already employing over 40,000 people across 750 organisations and has the largest concentration of animal health and aquaculture researchers in Europe.
Creative
industries
Scotland’s Creative Industries were identified in Scotland’s Economic Strategy as one of the growth sectors in which we can build on.
Food & Drink
Thanks to our region’s world leading natural resources food and drink businesses from the Highlands and Islands produce a wide range of internationally acclaimed products.
Data
Centres
The Highlands has all the right attributes to play a major role in delivering Scotland’s ambition of being a global data centre hub.
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© Ewen Weatherspoon
Residential
With an average of 1,200 new homes built across the region each year and a varied construction industry from a strong self-build culture to a variety of active national volume housebuilders – the residential property market in Highland offers a wide range of investment opportunities.
Regional Opportunities
Each region of the Highlands has unique opportunities to offer investors.
Contact Us
For further information on what is happening in the Highlands or advice on how you can invest in the region please get in touch