British economic policy would benefit from more Olympic discipline
"We have had four organisations with overlapping responsibilities for clean tech innovation set up since 2001"
We now know that when the British Cycling team swept the medals board at the 2012 Olympics it wasn't a lucky breakthrough, but the result of 15 years of steady funding and a long process of incremental...
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