Despite an estimated 40% unemployment rate, there are not enough qualified people to fill vacancies in hi-tech industries, engineering, finance, medicine and much else besides.
It would be about radically widening the base of the economy, nurturing small businesses again, building on the success of hi-tech green engineering, pharmaceuticals and design, and trying to escape the stranglehold of City banking on the country's politics, and even its imagination.
The combination of these skills is what sets apart leaders in different fields - writing, painting, sports, music, research, hi-tech or engineering.
It is demonstrated in this chapter that the conventional woven structures are still playing a crucial role in designing and engineering hi-tech medical devices.
Skill shortages are particularly acute in the engineering, hi-tech, computing and science sectors.
Then you walk into vast, open plan space, which feels part hi-tech call centre and engineering operation, part luxury modern hotel, with sofas and big TV screens showing the World Cup.
The Brighton example arrives via the hi-tech tradition that loves ambitious engineering and detail; the Hastings one follows Price's belief that it's often better to do less than more.
It stressed that scrapping Trident's replacement would be conditional on large sums being invested in creating new engineering and hi-tech jobs for the thousands of defence workers likely to lose their jobs in key Labour seats around the UK.
It wants to build homes, two schools, shops, a hotel and leisure facilities and an engineering and hi-tech manufacturing business park that will create 2,000 jobs.
