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Britain's "core knowledge economy issues" announced
16/03/2007
The core knowledge economy issues which are vital for Britain's future include skills and education, research and development, as well as innovation, according to the Work Foundation.
Science, technology and turning ideas into businesses, are also all important aims for the country, the organisation states.
Furthermore, the group believes that chancellor Gordon Brown should use this summer's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) to establish an economic policy which will allow the nation to "flourish in the knowledge economy".
It is also stated that the CSR could be the location for the prime minister-in-waiting Mr Brown's first serious statement of policy, with the knowledge economy "a strong candidate" to be the focus of this.
Ian Brinkley, the director of the Work Foundation's knowledge economy programme, said: "Britain now competes on its ability to generate and exploit knowledge.
"What we need now is for the knowledge economy to move from being an unacknowledged guest at the table of economic policy-making to guest of honour."
Science, technology and turning ideas into businesses, are also all important aims for the country, the organisation states.
Furthermore, the group believes that chancellor Gordon Brown should use this summer's Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) to establish an economic policy which will allow the nation to "flourish in the knowledge economy".
It is also stated that the CSR could be the location for the prime minister-in-waiting Mr Brown's first serious statement of policy, with the knowledge economy "a strong candidate" to be the focus of this.
Ian Brinkley, the director of the Work Foundation's knowledge economy programme, said: "Britain now competes on its ability to generate and exploit knowledge.
"What we need now is for the knowledge economy to move from being an unacknowledged guest at the table of economic policy-making to guest of honour."