A sculpture by the celebrated Italian artist Paolozzi sits outside Royal Bank of Scotland’s Drummond House offices in Edinburgh and engraved in its base reads a quote from Einstein.
“Knowledge is wonderful but imagination is even better”.
As its name suggests, Converge Challenge helps bring these qualities together. The competition, designed to help universities and students take their ideas from the drawing board to conception, has proved to be a great success. Recent figures show that for every £1 invested in the programme Scottish businesses leverage a further £7.51 in funding.