March 4, 2003, 7.34am • No comments (be first!) » • 799 Views
Be innovative, businesses told
Bosses have been urged to swim uncharted waters as Economic Development Minister Andrew Davies attempts to make Wales “a by-word for innovation”. He called for a push toward enterprise and risk-taking before mapping out the route to a more prosperous and cutting-edge economy in Cardiff on Tuesday.
Mr Davies’ new three-year Innovation Action Plan - presented at a key conference outlining a new £260m innovation assault - will help firms exploit great new ideas, creating spin-off jobs, if it succeeds.
But Wales’ foremost business academic said the minister was continuing to get his policies wrong with the latest golden jobs-creation programme, saying it was “repeating old mistakes”.



















