Economy: Productivity

Debate between Lord West of Spithead and Lord May of Oxford
Wednesday 23rd July 2014

(10 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Building on the admission that one of the greatest drivers of productivity is research and development, does the Minister agree that we need to do something to promote a more risk-taking culture? In the United States, bankruptcy is almost a condition for going forward in Silicon Valley; in our case, it means that it is hard to get a credit card afterwards.