UK Minister Lord Drayson Visits Cambashi
Lord Drayson meets entrepreneurs to develop plans to boost employment and
growth in the Cambridge cluster
 CAMBRIDGE,
UK, Apr 2, 2009 - Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation,
visited Cambashi’s offices in Cambridge on 31st March where he met a small group
of executives from Cambridge’s high technology cluster. The meeting was
facilitated by the prospective parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, Daniel
Zeichner.
Build on success
“Lord Drayson came to hear from Cambridge entrepreneurs at first hand,” said
Mike Evans, research director at Cambashi. “We were able to make a number of
suggestions that would improve focus on sectors where Cambridge leads the world,
such as software for engineering and manufacturing”.
The entrepreneurs pointed to significant successes of innovative UK companies
in engineering, design and manufacturing and the value of increasing government
officials’ awareness of this. It was recognized that while there were many good
government initiatives, there are more opportunities to help companies grow
faster and to a greater size. For example, David Cleevely, Chairman of ABCAM
suggested improving government procurement processes to eliminate any
unconscious bias against innovative small companies.
Continuing effort
The entrepreneurs agreed to reach out to their network of contacts in the
Cambridge cluster to identify specific ways that the government’s initiatives
could be improved in order to generate faster growth for innovative companies.
For his part, Lord Drayson committed to continue the dialogue.
About Cambashi
Cambashi, based in Cambridge UK, provides independent research and analysis
of the business reasons to use of IT in industry world-wide. Its specialist
fields include Engineering and Enterprise applications and the infrastructure to
enable industrial firms to use IT effectively. Cambashi publishes market size
estimates in the Engineering Applications Market Observatory. Its clients vary
in size from small to large and include most of the leading software vendors and
many pioneering IT users. Cambashi is a member of CATN, an international
association of consultants.
For more information, visit www.cambashi.com.
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