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If Britain is to invent the companies of the future, we will need to be prepared to take more risks. Britain can learn from the entrepreneurial culture of Israel and Silicon Valley’s ability to embrace failure.
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© 2012 Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss
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Kwarteng, K., Patel, P., Raab, D., Skidmore, C., Truss, E. (2012). Buccaneers. In: Britannia Unchained. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032249_6
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