For many years, the Department of Trade and Industry presided over a bewildering range of business support schemes, some of which were designed to encourage innovation. It has pruned them back significantly but political pressure to go further is mounting, with the Tories now promising to shrink the DTI and the Liberal Democrats to abolish it.
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Robert Chote
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- IFS
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Chote, R. (2004). Boffins becalmed: we are good at inventing incentives, but not at producing inventors [Comment] IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/boffins-becalmed-we-are-good-inventing-incentives-not-producing-inventors-0 (accessed: 8 July 2024).
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