The RECCO Crew goes old school

Academics from the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation went from authors to production line packers as boxes of their RECCO Crew books arrived at Strathclyde Business School reception this month. 

The RECCO Crew’s digital book series has already won huge support and interest from Scotland's teachers – the character-based books introduce entrepreneurial thinking and doing in an engaging and child-friendly way, through the adventures of Resilience, Empathy, Collaboration, Creativity, and Optimism (RECCO). 

Following some prototype printing in January, the Crew’s first print edition of their books arrived at Strathclyde Business School in a very big pile of boxes.

The reception team on the SBS front desk helped the Hunter Centre’s Lucrezia Casulli, Suzanne Mawson, and Sarah Dodd to manage all this stock and, over two days in mid-May, their newly formed production line packaged and posted out 600 books to 60 primary schools from Orkney to Dumfries.  Funded by the Scottish Government, the books are free to schools with the aim of encouraging entrepreneurial thinking from a young age. 

Published: 26 May 2026