SCC in new university link-up

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce has today announced a “strategic alliance” with Strathclyde University, with the SCC moving into newly refurbished offices at the university’s Business School on Glasgow’s Cathedral Street.

The SCC said the move from its offices in Merchants House in George Square was “part of a two-way knowledge and skills transfer” between two of Scotland’s leading business institutions.

It is designed to connect Strathclyde Business School’s research capacity and teaching faculty to a network of 26 regional chambers of commerce across the country, comprising 11,000 smaller businesses.

Tim Allan, president of the SCC, said: “This is a very exciting new alliance which injects academic expertise into Scotland’s most ambitious and creative business network.

“It is the first step in SCC’S wider ambition to shorten the distance between academia and business to our mutual benefit. The chambers already enjoy a close working relationship with the Fraser of Allander Institute based at Strathclyde and we see this new alliance with the Business School as a model for intended future academic collaborations.”

Professor Sir Jim Mcdonald, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, said the link-up would help “accelerate economic transformation”.