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Scotland is busy transferring the technological advances it has made in the energy and electronics industries for application in other sectors. Berenice Baker reports.

Scotland has built a deserved reputation as one of the UK's technology hot-spots over the last 20 years, not least because of its strong position in the energy and electronics industries.

Its next big challenge is to transfer those strengths across different sectors, creating an environment in which new applications are found for established technologies.

Dr Andy McLaughlin, project manager for regional development agency

, said: 'Scottish Enterprise recently hosted its fourth technology showcase. In past years we have had an electronics, microelectronics and opto-electronics showcase event, but this was the first featuring them all under one roof. The focus is very much on taking technology to the key priority industries in Scotland.'

He added: 'Usually you would get energy companies standing up and talking to other energy companies. Here we had energy companies standing up and talking to life scientists, nanotech folks, aerospace folks. That slant of "it might not be new to you but it's radical to us" represents the crosscutting approach we are trying to encourage across markets.'

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