Green Shoots is a subsidiary of Recycling Institute, which was founded in Dundee in 2005 by Dundee City Council, the University of Abertay Dundee, and SD Lime & Associates.  Green Shoots was created in Dundee in April 2006, as a result of work undertaken by Recycling Institute in the ReRegions project funded by the Interreg IIIc programme.  The project involved seven different partners from five EU countries working on the socio-economic problems caused by economic decline in regions of Brown Coal mining.  Recycling Institute conceived the Green Shoots concept whilst working on this project.

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• Support Team: Green Shoots is supported by a Steering Group through which all specialist expertise can be accessed.  The group consists of:

  Stewart Heney, whose experience in the private sector, with start-up and early stage companies in the SME sector, in particular in the management of the experimental local incubator, Adaptive Venture Management, provides especially relevant expertise.

  Steve Taylor, whose experience in the public sector, working in economic development projects on entrepreneurial and imaginative visions, provides breadth of experience to the project.

  Ham Sayeed, whose knowledge of the social enterprise sector and experience with strategies to stimulate it, is essential to Green Shoots.

  Stewart Ball, whose knowledge of the recycling sector in the region is also essential to the success of Green Shoots.

  Nick Lyth, whose knowledge of business start-ups, the SME sector and also the recycling sector is useful as a bridge between the different components, and, in addition, work with Adaptive Venture Management in Scotland, provides further experience of incubation.