The investment is the latest tranche spent from Channel 4's £20m Growth Fund, which aims to sustain the UK independent production sector by providing money to creative companies with a vision for growth.
Duffy, who supported David Miliband in last year's Labour leadership contest, had demanded to talk to Clegg, who was visiting Rochdale with Lord Heseltine to promote the regional growth fund, which aims to create thousands of new jobs.
The Commission wants EU cohesion funding to focus on projects compatible with the Europe 2020 growth strategy, which aims to encourage business innovation and a low-carbon economy.
In October, David Cameron told Mr Brown the government was committed to "decentralisation of power" from government and pointed to initiatives including the Regional Growth Fund, which aims to help businesses create jobs around the country.
The startup is based in Sunderland, in the North of England — far from the beating heart of East London's Tech City (4th aspect investor, Angel CoFund, is part-backed by the UK government's Regional Growth Fund, which aims to offset the UK's North/South funding divide).
Her duties include the government's "Growth Acceleration Programme", which aims to mobilise investment of $301 billion in infrastructure between 2007 and 2010.
National 'green growth' strategies, which aim at decoupling economic development from adverse environmental impacts, have become a new paradigm for policymakers in developing countries.
She warned that enacting it would "negatively impact" the benefits Uganda gets from the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which aims to expand U.S. trade and investment with sub-Saharan Africa in order to stimulate economic growth in the region.
Extra £270m for the Growing Places fund, which aims to boost local economic growth and job creation.
The Eighth Five-Year Plan is subordinate to the Ten Year Socio-economic Development Strategy (2001 2010) which aims to continue comprehensive reform and achieve fast, sustainable growth rates.
Its economic policy will be based on the accelerated growth strategy, the Stratégie de croissance accélérée (SCA), which aims to raise annual real GDP growth to a minimum of 7%.
