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Tue 03 Mar 2010There is a contradiction between policy and practice on innovation
PRESIDENT'S LOG: We need to be spending more, not less, on innovation if we want a sustained economic recovery, writes FERDINAND VON PRONDZYNSKI
EVER SINCE the sky fell on us some time in 2008 we have, as a country, been struggling to see what we should be doing to get us back into economic health. What we have mainly focused on is controlling public expenditure and trying to shore up the exchequer.
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