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It might be a wee, wild country, constantly under threat by its pushy posh neighbor, but Scotland\u2019s pioneering thinkers have shaped the world\u2019s most important technologyWhen it comes to history, I\u2019ve always felt more drawn to the Mel Brooks approach than Mel Gibson\u2019s, but if Braveheart did one thing, it showed the wider world that there\u2019s more to Scotland than kilts, haggis and a dram of the good stuff.Growing up in Glasgow, I was in a privileged position to observe some of our more traditional pursuits at first hand \u2013 drinking, joking, fighting and being casually racist to our English cousins being among the most popular (perhaps Mel Gibson is a more accurate ambassador than we first realised).The Scots invented all of the tools of modern marketing, but does inspiration come despite or because of our fiercely independent nature?Like a fine Single Malt, as I\u2019ve matured I\u2019ve begun to appreciate the true breadth and complexity of my nation\u2019s invention. I was writing about on-demand tech recently \u00a0and mentioned that it was fellow Scot John Logie Baird who first demonstrated television, one of the first mass-marketing platforms.But friends, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Scottish minds are behind almost all of the tools of modern marketing and commerce. John McAdam gave us Macadamised roads in the 1820s, so we could shift goods swiftly and efficiently. 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We could talk about all sorts of things from penicillin to marmalade; the decimal point to the US Navy; even, at the University of St Andrews in 2013, a tractor beam that attracts objects at a microscopic level.Joking aside, this begs a serious question. What exactly is it that makes us so innovative? What drives our minds to not merely produce but to conjure and invent? The answer could be any number of things from curiosity and interest to simple necessity, driven to invention by our climate\u2019s envious combinations of rain or midges.Next time you\u2019re considering world domination and a killer marketing strategy, remember that liveliness and an agile mind don\u2019t start in the board room, they come from an interested perspective, from consideration and independent thought. As the traditional toast goes: \u201cHere\u2019s tae us; wha\u2019s like us? 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