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FACTS & FIGURES WINTER SPORTS


Scotland has ski centres at Cairngorm,


Glenshee, Glencoe, the Lecht, and the Nevis Range


companies in the oil and gas sector


150,000 2,000


ABERDEEN More than


people are employed by more than ELECTRONICS


• About 200 electronics companies operate in Scotland employing approx 10,000 people


77 years DUNBLANE


Hometown of Andy Murray, first British male player to win Wimbledon for


NORTH SEA Oil reserves stand at 2 billion tonnes ABERDEEN


A global energy hub which rivals Houston as a


world-class centre of upstream oil and gas expertise


OIL AND GAS


• Activity Survey highlighted £100 billion of potential capital investment for UK Continental Shelf


• Scotland has 15 universities UNIVERSITIES


GLASGOW Home to the


Commonwealth Games in


2014 EDINBURGH


The Edinburgh Bio Quarter is establishing Scotland as one of the world’s


top 10 centres for biomedical commercialisation THE SALTIRE PRIZE


• £10 million – The Saltire Prize is the world’s largest innovation prize for technological advances in wave and tidal energy


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