Local enterprise company

A local enterprise company (LEC) is a public-sector organisation in Scotland with responsibility for local economic development activities. The LECs form part of the two enterprise networks, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise LECs

 * Argyll and the Islands Enterprise (AIE), covering most of Argyll and Bute (excluding the Helensburgh area), plus Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae
 * Caithness and Sutherland Enterprise (CASE)
 * Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise (INBSE)
 * Lochaber Enterprise
 * HIE Moray
 * Orkney Enterprise
 * Ross and Cromarty Enterprise (RACE)
 * Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise (SALE)
 * Shetland Enterprise
 * Western Isles Enterprise (WIE)

Scottish Enterprise LECs
Previously autonomous, the Scottish Enterprise LECs are now fully integrated into the main organisation, and act as branch offices in the following areas:
 * Ayrshire
 * Borders
 * Dumfries and Galloway
 * Dunbartonshire
 * Edinburgh and Lothian
 * Fife
 * Forth Valley
 * Glasgow
 * Grampian
 * Lanarkshire
 * Renfrewshire
 * Tayside