He called for a rise in tax credits for companies that invest in R&D, and education reforms "to make Britain Europe's leading high tech exporter".
He stepped into the U.K. political spotlight in 2010 when he penned a report titled "Ingenious Britain" for then- Prime Minister David Cameron on how his party could make the country a leading tech exporter.
And partly for the same reason: the clouds over America's Nasdaq a slowdown in the semiconductor sector, shrinking profit growth and silly valuations have also darkened the outlook for Japan's high-tech exporters (which provide most of the country's export growth).
ANOTHER week, another set of impressive-sounding, or painful-sounding, job cuts from one of Japan's finest high-tech exporters.
The Finnish government's response was to develop a society-wide strategy to transform Finland into one of the world's leading high-tech exporters.
"We are increasingly high-tech exporters," he says; "and they are largely low-tech markets.,"Yet, for political and psychological reasons, Israelis had continued to hope for more and to be disappointed.
This is a dangerous argument because Japan is far from being only a high-tech exporter; it also competes with other Asian countries in exports ranging from textiles to shipbuilding to steel.
Embraer is an isolated example of a big high-tech exporter.
"Our only destiny can be as a high-tech exporter, that creates jobs, high-paying jobs," he said.
