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If we are to have an innovation-driven economy, we need to address a few key areas where the country has issues. Among them would be the substantial involvement of the Government in business, the heavy reliance on foreign labour and entrepreneurs who have come to expect handouts from the Government.
I WROTE an article with this very same title in April of 2012 for The Petri Dish, a leading local science newspaper. My lament then was the lack of follow-through in the development of the bio-tech ecosystem.
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