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Our ambition is for Wales to become one of the easiest places in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ to start, grow and invest in a business
Wales
Minister for Enterprise, Connectivity and Energy, Adam Price, says his message to business and to the country is direct: Wales means business. Not as a slogan. As an instruction.
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North Wales has never lacked assets or ambition, but what is changing now is the scale of opportunity
Wales
CEO of the Development Bank of Wales Giles Thorley says the question is not whether North Wales can grow, but how that growth is shaped and who benefits from it.
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What will be the impact of AI on employment
Technology
The best workers will not be those who pretend AI does not exist, nor those who use it uncritically.
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What we could learn from the world's happiest country Finland
Wales
Finland tops the latest World Happiness Report
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What should be the economic priorities of the next Welsh Goverment
Welsh Government
Director of CBI Wales Russell Greenslade says stable policy and targeted investment to improve the business environment are essential to keep Welsh firms competitive
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What the parties are promising on transport in Wales ahead of the Senedd Election
Transport
Westminster governments of whatever hue have underfunded Wales and the Senedd is the only route we have to achieve the funding levels needed to improve life in Wales.
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The frustration in Wales is not politicians disagreeing but that we face the same problems of two decades ago
Welsh Government
If no party has a majority, the next Welsh Government will be judged not by the elegance of its agreements but by its ability to make the Welsh state work better.
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The knowhow built up in Wales’ contact centre sector is an asset worth redirecting
Economy
Emma Northcote, head of engagement and research at change consultancy Perago, has penned an open letter to the next Welsh Government.
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Wales doesn't need grants but a new approach to IP and innovation that sustains business success  
Economy
Frank Holmes says that Wales needs to look to innovative small countries like Estonia if it wants to create a vibrant and IP rich economy
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Opinion: Why businesses must see cybersecurity as much more than just an IT issue
Tech
Ahead of DTX in Manchester Dan Giannasi, detective inspector at the North West Cyber Resilience Centre, talks about cyber resilience
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AI can help turn ambition into sustained growth for firms in Wales
Technology
It would be inconsistent to encourage Welsh businesses to embrace AI without doing the same ourselves says CEO of the Development Bank of Wales Giles Thorley
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The verdict on Plaid Cymru's plans for the Welsh economy
Wales
At the heart of its Senedd manifesto are plans for a new at arm's lenght National Development Agency
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The transformative impact of the South Wales Metro rail project
Transport
Aled Edwards of communications consultancy Freshwater says the £1.3bn Metro can be more than just a transport project but a wider economic driver
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The Greens, Liberal Democrats and Reform on plans to boost the Welsh economy
Wales
The parties have set out economic plans in their respective Senedd Election manifestos
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Senedd Election manifesto from the Tories far more pro-business than Labour
Conservative Party
But the manifesto is clearer on what it wants to do than on how it would fund it.
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Labour is finally getting the importance of the economy in Wales
Wales
Welsh Labour’s Senedd manifesto shows that it finally wants to act like a government that has realised the importance of the economy.
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WRU chairman Richard Collier-Keywood saw abundance of goodwill turn to conflict
Wales
The union has confirmed that its chairman will stand down at the end of a three year term this summer
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Wales' poor record on securing research and innovation funding
Wales
In 2023-24, Wales received just £168m or 2% of the º£½ÇÊÓƵ total, from º£½ÇÊÓƵRI – the body responsible for funding R&D and innovation
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We need a plan to revive and renew struggling universities in Wales
Education
For too long Welsh higher education has behaved as though the market around it has not fundamentally changed,
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If we want to address the housing crisis we simply need more builders
Housing
Chief executive of the Development Bank of Wales Giles Thorley says we need to increase the number of SME housing developers
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Wales must make productivity the North Star of economic policy
Economy
Entrepreneurship has to stop being a warm paragraph at the back of an economic strategy and become a national mission.
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Despite the promise of £14bn of rail investment Wales isn't getting a fair deal
Transport
The concern is that the infrastructure strategy, priority setting and funding allocation to Wales will continue to be determined in London.
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Welshness should never be reduced to grievance, nostalgia, or sentimentality
Wales
What does it mean to be Welsh?
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We shouldn't get hung up on firms being Welsh-owned but those with potential for growth
Wales
Frank Holmes says the real dividing line is not between nationalism and globalism. It is between capability and complacency
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