[4][5] Scotland's Future—the white paper setting out a framework for an independent Scotland—was launched on 26 November 2013 at Glasgow Science Centre, attracting journalists from "as far afield as China".

[9] The launch of the document was welcomed in principle by Yes Scotland chairman Dennis Canavan and chief executive Blair Jenkins, and also by Radical Independence Campaign co-founder Jonathon Shafi.

[12] Pat Rafferty, Scottish secretary of trade union Unite, said the document offers "some welcome proposals", and that the union "[notes] with interest proposals for the establishment of a National Convention on Employment and Labour Relations which we hope reflects a long-term desire for a more pluralistic approach to employment relations from the Scottish government".

However, he also said Unite will "[pursue] more detail on proposals for wider trade union-related legislation and the role of collective bargaining in re-balancing the future Scottish economy".

[14][15] Alex Massie suggested in a blog for The Spectator that its release was "designed to shift the Overton Window", and that "its publication nudges the argument forward and makes the idea of independence seem more real, more routine, than it was yesterday".