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Software and products from areas of physics that are developing wafer-based technologies can be as close to market as two years—if the product works, somebody will buy it. New drugs, we know, will be 15 or 16 years from market.
However, a significant proportion of that work, particularly in relation to the investment in new technology and in new ways of delivering the SQA's services, has yet to be done.
We will support businesses in grasping the opportunities of the new economy, invest in research and development, support new entrepreneurs and sustain the vital link that transforms the ideas of the laboratory into new product manufacture.
They pay little attention to what is going on around them or to the people who work day in and day out to keep the shops busy and to ensure that we can buy what we want. The people who serve us are often at risk of violent or racial attacks.