Businesses need to be more open with one another to help boost the economy.
The call comes from David Gill, director of St John’s Innovation Centre, as the annual Meerkats and Avatars event gets under way today.
Open innovation between mid-sized businesses and early-stage companies would allow UK plc to derive greater benefit from its thriving technology sector and would make a lasting contribution to the country’s competitiveness, Mr Gill says.
Introduction of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), in which early-stage, high-technology SMEs tender for government contracts, has already made a tangible difference to many Cambridge companies, he says, by introducing them to a “real” client and this concept could be extended.
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