Hints and tips:
...He has set up a company in San Diego called Human Longevity Inc or HLI, which “will build the largest human [DNA] sequencing operation in the world”....
...The genesis of the northeast Lep has been trickier....
...“There is lots of innovation in the region’s universities but they need help to commercialise it,” says Anne Pittard of the LEP....
...The scheme, launched in January, could then be rolled out across much of the country by local enterprise partnerships, according to Barry Dodd, chairman of the York and North Yorkshire LEP....
...According to Chemicals Northwest, the region’s chemical-cluster support organisation, the new Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area employed 16,000 people in the sector in 2008,...
...It plays very much to the LEP agenda of removing barriers to growth, growing jobs and growing the economy.”...
...Dave Smith, chief executive of Sunderland council, which is under the same LEP umbrella as rival Newcastle, said Sunderland wanted an EZ....
...Many parts of the country are still without a Lep, making it difficult for councils and businesses in those regions to put together bids for funding from the £1.4bn regional growth fund that is now handing...
...The eight RDAs outside London will be replaced in 2012 with an array of smaller LEPs....
...The signs are that LEPs will have to rely on councils and businesses for funding, rather than central government....
...Mr Cowcher said that “a lot of small local authorities are running around saying that they will have their own LEPs....
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