Nationwide 1Gbps broadband, the creation of a ‘European Accelerator' to attract the world’s most innovative start-ups and a sea change in structures and attitudes to start-ups were among the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce revealed today.
The plan envisages that if the recommendations – which centre on taxation, intellectual property and spinouts from multinationals, indigenous firms and universities – are followed through anything between 120,000 by 2014 even up to 215,000 jobs by 2020 could be created.
But the long-awaited report with 24 recommendations to transform the country’s economic fortunes is right now just that, a report. Now that it has been presented to the Government it is now open to debate whether the Government will pick up the ball and run with it.
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Author: John Kennedy
