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Innovation Policy

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

455 c486-509WH 

Session

2006-07

Department

Department of Trade and Industry

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Desmond Turner | 455 c499-500WH (Link to this contribution) I shall speak extremely briefly—for less than five minutes, if I can. For me, there is something of ...

Ian Taylor | 455 c497-9WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Atkinson. I shall obey your ruling. First, I welcome the Minister to his position—pa...

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Evan Harris | 455 c501-4WH (Link to this contribution) I shall start my remarks, which must perforce be brief, by welcoming the Minister to his new portfol...

Brian Iddon | 455 c500-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson) on securing the debate. I d...

Malcolm Wicks | 455 c507-9WH (Link to this contribution) This is the second time today that I have been before you, Mr. Atkinson, although that phrase might ...

Charles Hendry | 455 c504-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in this debate. I join others in congratulating the hon. Member for No...

Ashok Kumar | 455 c495WH (Link to this contribution) In the north-east, we have one of the most successful clusters in the vibrant chemical cluster. It h...

Speaker | 455 c497WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call Mr. Ian Taylor, may I remind hon. Members that there is just over a quarter of ...

Ian Gibson | 455 c495-7WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that it can happen. When it does happen, it is because individuals who have idea...

Ian Gibson | 455 c490WH (Link to this contribution) I wish that the hon. Gentleman would not.

Ian Gibson | 455 c495WH (Link to this contribution) Of course, there is variation between agencies. I can look at agencies where things are happening to...

Ashok Kumar | 455 c495WH (Link to this contribution) My experience in our area of the north-east is very different from the hon. Gentleman’s. We had trem...

Ian Gibson | 455 c492-5WH (Link to this contribution) As someone who has spent a lot of time trying to teach people ideas, I should say that the best idea...

Ashok Kumar | 455 c492WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. He talks about business success, but does he a...

Ian Gibson | 455 c491-2WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, that has worried me. It has always happened, actually, that research councils have included bus...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 455 c491WH (Link to this contribution) I recognised, Mr. Atkinson, that I will not get to speak, so I wanted to make a couple of interventi...

Speaker | 455 c491WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the hon. Gentleman intervenes, I ask that interventions be short. The clock is ticking...

Ian Gibson | 455 c490-1WH (Link to this contribution) No, I absolutely agree and I thank the hon. Gentleman for that contribution. In general, that is wha...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 455 c490WH (Link to this contribution) Well, I think that the hon. Gentleman is making an incredibly important point. Will he comment on th...

Brian Iddon | 455 c487WH (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Ian Gibson | 455 c486-7WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Atkinson. It is a pleasure to deliver our ideas about innovation to you this afternoo...

Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 455 c490WH (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could bring the hon. Gentleman back to his post-neoclassical endogenous growth theory and ...

Ian Gibson | 455 c487-90WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has also had a mouthful of acid in his time, or alkaline. I welcome the fact that man...

Speaker | 455 c486WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call Dr. Ian Gibson, I ask hon. Members to bear it in mind that the winding-up speeches hav...

Subjects

Innovation Technology Research Science

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