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Business information in Scotland: co-ordination or confusion?

Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, made the above statement at a ceremony to commemorate the opening of a network of business information shops throughout Scotland in April 1994. In a previous article in Business Information Review, we considered the types of information sought by the business community throughout Scotland and the volume of this demand. In this article we shall identify the range of organisations aiming to meet these information needs. We shall then examine, in the light of the above quotation, the overlap in business information provision and consider whether this overlap is helpful or confusing for business information users.