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4 February 2012

The politics of innovation

21 July 2009 Pete Swabey

The recession has intensified calls to unleash the UK’s potential in the IT sector. A press conference in Westminster this morning witnessed the launch of yet another such call, this time from UK software development tools vendor Micro Focus.

The company has put together what it calls a ‘Technology Manifesto’, a selection of recommendations that it believes could help create around 250,000 new jobs in the UK by promoting and enabling the country’s technology sector.

And on hand to endorse the manifesto in messianic style were three lords, representing each of the main political parties and their... read more...

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