2025 Scottish National Innovation Week and Scottish Business Network International Week Event Knowledge Map

2025 Scottish National Innovation Week and Scottish Business Network International Week Event Knowledge Map

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2025 Scottish National Innovation Week and Scottish Business Network International Week Event Knowledge Map
24 September 2025

It’s the inaugural Scottish National Innovation Week (NationalInnovationWeek) coming up from the 22nd to the 26th of September 2025. This new, Scottish Government sponsored, week long event brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, and leading experts to celebrate and show how Scotland is pioneering the transformative technologies and industries of the future. These dates also coincide with the 2025 Scottish International Week  (SIW), which has been co-ordinated and run by the Scottish Business Network (SBN) since 2017 to showcase Scotland’s global potential,  strengthen cross-border connections and generally celebrate the achievements of Scottish businesses (‘tech’ or otherwise) – and Scottish business owners – around the world 🙂

So a big deal then…

As part of that Scottish Tech Industry for the last 25+ years (we’re proudly Glasgow born & bred), we wanted to not just join in the celebrations but to make a meaningful contribution that also introduces our own innovative work with MindManager (the world’s best information mapping software since 1994) to a new audience. Thus, we have created an event calendar knowledge map that brings together everything that makes up the programmes for both weeks – all the in-person & online presentations, panel discussions, keynote sessions, workshops, networking opportunities and speaker bio’s – into the one ‘visually structured, digital space’. (Note some events are listed in both programs, hence our joint approach to the map).

Benefits of This Knowledge Map

As well as providing a ‘thumb and brain friendly’, intuitive to navigate guide to what’s on when, with whom throughout the week for organisers, speakers & attendees alike, our knowledge map can serve multiple other purposes both now and into the future…..

Be the ‘single shared source of truth’ that can be easily updated & re-published with any last minute changes to timings, participants and even venue arrangements ‘on the hoof’ with the unique Publisher feature (see ‘Viewing This Knowledge Map’ below), a lot quicker than your webmaster will be able to receive, understand, edit and re-publish the affected web pages.

 Be the ‘gathering point’ for the organiser’s ‘wash and brush up’ sessions at the end of the day / week to discuss what worked, what didn’t, what could’ve been done better, what needs to change next time etc. etc.

Be the ‘staring point’ for at least the initial planning discussions for next year’s event (assuming they want to put themselves through it all again ;-), long after the dust has settled and the memories of exactly what happened when this year have faded. What sessions do we want to repeat (eg. the daily ‘keynotes’)? What type of sessions need to go where to keep the programme balanced? When was too much going on, and when was there a bit of a lull? Who do we want to have back again (oh look, their contact details are in the map too, that’s handy :-)*
(* And if they were so minded they could use MindManager to save loads of time not just planning but also creating next years event, right down to the page copy, by re-using & amending the branches and embedded & attached contents of this year’s map.)

Be the permanent archive of the event, guaranteed to be available long into the future when the event websites (and maybe even some of the organisers 😉 have crossed over to the Great Server In The Sky. At the end of the day a MindManager map (and it’s HTML export) are ‘just’ files that can be stored in digital archives along with all the other records.

Viewing This Knowledge Map

As you can see from the panel, there are multiple ways to view this knowledge map either online or after downloading in both original MindManager (.mmap) or HTML5 (.html) format.

Undoubdetly the most innovative is embedding the interactive, dynamic HTML map within a static web page like this one – as shown below – in much the same way a Google Map is.

This is done through a combination of MindManager’s unique publishing feature – ‘in-software’ capability whereby the map is dynamically published as HTML to MindManager hosted servers in the EU or USA (you can choose which), generating a unique URL that can be shared with anyone (or only those who have the password you set) – and then embedding said link within an i-frame within a webpage. Thus in the same way as a Google map is remotely served to a webpage from Google’s servers, the map file itself is not actually hosted on this website.

It can also be edited, updated and re-published – with all the changes instantly appearing on all the instances of the published map when it is locally refreshed / re-loaded – without a change of URL, or any tedious physical uploading ond manual over-writing of files. Nice 😉

You can find out more about the technical ins and outs on our MindManager Services page, but if you just want to crack on with discovering and working with the knowledge, start with the embedded map below (there are user instructions for those unfamiliar with the whole ‘knowledge map on a web page thing’ embedded (in the orange panel) within the map itself, and reproduced underneath.

Use this knowledge map to quickly discover & plan the events that you want to go to that are part of the inaugural Scottish Innovation Week or annual Scottish Business Network (SBN) International Week.
Angus McDonald
Angus McDonaldKnowledge Mappers Founder & CEO

View / Download This Map (MindManager & HTML)

There are multiple ways of viewing this proof of concept / demonstrator MindManager knowledge map….

To view the HTML map embedded (in an i-frame) at the bottom of this webpage courtesy of MindManager’s unique Publishing feature, click the button below (or manually scroll down).

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To view the HTML map fullscreen in a new tab in your browser courtesy of MindManager’s unique Publishing feature, click the button below (it will take a few seconds to load).

View HTML map fullscreen
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If you are new to our maps there are user instructions in the orange panel (if viewing on a small screen you may need to scroll to the right to view them).

To download the map as both original MindManager (.mmap) and HTML5 (.html) files for more thorough offline investigation, complete the form below and the download links will be sent to the email address you supply. 

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Embedded HTML Knowledge Map

2025 Scottish National Innovation Week and Scottish Business Network International Week Event Knowledge Map

This knowledge map of the events that are part of the inaugural Scottish National Innovation Week and Scottish Business Network (SBN)’s 2025 Scottish International Week (some are part of both) has been created by Knowledge Mappers to demonstrate how the combination of our data / information / knowledge hunting & cartographic expertise, and the many unique features of MindManager – the world’s best information (‘mind’) mapping software since 1994 – can help support the good people of the Scottish Tech Sector – and the wider Scottish Business Network – to discover, access & assimilate the knowledge they need to do what they need to do to move themselves (and the teams, organisations and communities of which they are part) forward and make their contributions to this big old beautiful world of ours quicker, easier and with a lot less stress 😉 

Follow the instruction in the panel below (which is also in the map itself) to work with the HTML version of the map embedded above if you are unfamiliar with the format. Return to the panel above for other viewing / download options.

 

USER INSTRUCTIONS FOR HTML MAP VIEWED IN WEB BROWSER

The HTML map enables you to start working with the knowledge straight away as all you need is a device with a browser….

1. Moving around – To pan around the map drag your mouse, or use the inset overview map in the bottom right corner (click on the map-pin icon), or the browser window scroll bars. To zoom in / out use the mouse scroll wheel whilst pressing the <Ctrl> key, or the zoom slider in the bottom right.

2. Drilling down – To expand / collapse branches & sub-branches, click on the ‘wee bubble’ with the number at the end.

3. Explore branch content – Click on any branch in the map and a side panel will open on the right side of your browser window with multiple tabs. Each tab contains different types of branch content such as notes, links, index marker tags etc. (if there is no content of that type present, the tab is greyed out). The Notes tab content is displayed by default if present (or the ‘Attachments & Links’ tab if not)

4. View embedded images – Click on the wee magnifying glass on any branch thumbnail image (if present) and the full image will open in a pop-up window.

5. Explore resource links – Click on the ‘Attachemnts & Links’ tab and click on the links listed to open the resource in another tab in your web browser. Internal links will ‘jump you’ to another branch in the map.

6. Tags and interactive filtering – Click on the ‘Tags’ tab to see all the marker tags attached to the branch arranged by group (if present eg. there are no tags in ‘Basic’ maps). Clicking on the ‘Filter’ tab at the top will show all tags in all groups attached to all branches. Checking the box beside any will filter the map to show only branches with that tag by default (other filtering options are available – have a play ;-).

7. User Tips – See the note attached to this branch for tips on ways you can use this HTML knowledge map.

8. Find out more – Click the wee icon at the bottom right of this box to view the Knowledge Map Guide on our website for further information.

New to our Knowledge Maps?

Watch the brief explainer videos of what’s what below before viewing / downloading a sample of this map to play with….

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Explore Further

We offer a range of MindManager and Knowledge Mapping  products and services whatever your level of experience….

Our digital download mapstore contains a great range of ‘off the shelf’, professionally crafted knowledge maps of definitive, public domain knowledge spaces – such as Countries of the World Knowledge Atlases (‘geographic space’) and Generic and Annual Knowledge Calendars (‘time space’) with or without world events – in MindManager & HTML file format that will save you a ton of time withn your own projects.

Need your own maps created? We also offer a bespoke MindManager mapping service for clients as well as training to get them started on making your own.

If you’ve already started on your map making journey, we can use our expertise to audit & optimise your existing MindManager map libraries and map-making processes and suggest ways to optimise them to maximise your efficiency.

Along with our fellow partners in the MindManager International Value Added Partner (MIVAP) Network, we have over a century of collective expereince and are able to offer a complete MindManager consultancy service on all aspects of the software – from training for beginners on how to get started, to taking it to the next level for existing users, to extending functionality through the development of bespoke MindManager macros and add-ons.

As an official MindManager Partner we have access to exclusive promotional offers on licence pricing we can pass on to you, as well as offering bespoke packages of all the aforementioned value added services – such as one-on-one or group training tailored to your circumstances and desired outcomes and delivered online or onsite, using your own maps if you want so you can apply your new skills there and then – to help make sure you and your team get the most from this amazing, Swiss army knife’ software tool!

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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus
16th Century Mathematician & Astronomer
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Tae ken that we ken whit we ken, and tae ken that we dinnae ken whit we dinnae ken, that's whit it's aw aboot, ye ken?
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Contemporary Scottish Philosopher
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And whilst we're aboot it, tae ken where the hell ye get haud of whit ye need to ken, when ye need to ken it, if ye dinnae ken it awready?
Rab C. Nesbitt
Contemporary Scottish Philosopher
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As well as the definitive list of 'building blocks' of our world, our knowledge maps are a visually structured portal to all the official / definitive / plain old useful knowledge resources to be found about them in the public domain. All in a single shareable HTML file, viewable by anybody on any device with a browser. Not bad, ken?
Angus McDonald
Knowledge Mappers Founder & CEO and Scotland The Map Project Director
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