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Manufacturers seen as missing link to revival

By Peter Marsh

Published: November 17 2009 18:17 | Last updated: November 17 2009 18:17

Manufacturing is the “missing link” that could galvanise Britain’s economic recovery by maximising the commercial uses of its scientific and technological ideas, according to one of the country’s leading industrial thinkers.

Mike Gregory, the head of Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing, said it should not be regarded as a narrow segment of the economy but as a “sequence of operations that knit together the processes of innovation” and transfers this into wealth.

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