And finally, a brief mention to the work undertaken by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning in tandem with Informatics Ventures, who put on an intensive one-day training workshop this month for aspiring post-graduate entrepreneurs studying at Scottish Universities.

The Enterprisers event held at Stirling University gave an insight to future businesspersons by entrepreneurs. Having set up his first business whilst at university, our own Aydin Kurt-Elli was invited as one of 20 guest speakers to share his tips, triumph and tales.

These kind of events are always important given that we all recognise that SMEs are the bedrock of our economy. More to the point, every entrepreneur has a story of when things didn’t go quite according to plan - and more often than not, it’s those lessons that resonate the most.