Wales 'Needs a Policy on Science to Boost Innovation'

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Byline: By DAVID WILLIAMSON Western Mail

An intelligent Assembly Government science policy is needed if Wales' most creative companies are going to become successful enterprises, according to leading experts in the field. Lyn Rees, sales and marketing director of British Biocell International - the Cardiff-based designer of diagnostics technology - said companies such as his could have made a greater impact earlier in their history if they had been able to access appropriate commercial advice.

There was immense potential, he said, for partnerships between innovative companies and academia, but such initiatives were hamstrung in Wales by bureaucracy and inexperience.

His comments came as the First Minister launched a …