The Business - 06/12/2009

Presented by Graham Stewart. Neil Ross, Scottish Venture Fund Director at Scottish Enterprise, tells us why Scotland's equity investment market is outperforming the rest of the UK. Joe Henry, co-founder of Planys, which specialises in the commercialisation of new technology, and one of his clients, Gillian Watson, managing director of Giltech, explain how to turn clever ideas into a real business. Reporter Huw Williams presents his notebook from Dubai on the emirate's financial problems. And Jim Sillars, former assistant secretary-general to The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, gives us his assessment of the scale of the problem.