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Wales offers great advantages for budding life sciences companies, but the sector needs government support and access to finance. That was the view of panellists in the third of Insider's Welsh Government debates, discussing a sector worth £1.3bn to the economy annually, with 300 companies employing 15,000 people. READ MORE...
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Welsh Government debate - Life Sciences
 Gareth Morgan and Penny Owen from the Welsh Government Life Sciences Panel join a panel of private sector experts to discuss how to stimulate and invest in the industry, which is worth £1.3bn to the Welsh economy.
Panellists: Professor Gareth Morgan, vice chairman, Welsh Government Life Sciences Sector Panel; Aled Finnear, chief executive and founder, Park Place Research; Matthew West, general manager, UK operations, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics; Dr Penny Owen, product segment leader, GE Healthcare; David Ford, Director, e-Health Innovation Centre, College of Medicine, Swansea University
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Anthony Record, the co-founder of risk management business National Britannia, plans to create a campus in Caerphilly for up to 100 start-up and growing companies. Read More...
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EKF Diagnostics, the medical test device company based in Penarth, has gained approval to start selling its HemoPoint H2 haemoglobin measurement system in the US. Read More...
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Wales needs a culture change to encourage more young people to start companies, according to entrepreneurs and experts at Insider’s enterprise round table. Read More...
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Revenue has bounced back at Henry Howard Finance after a year of "strong trading", accounts for the Newport-based leasing company show. Read More...
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Wales' biggest retail companies, Peacocks and Iceland, are at the centre of separate takeover rumours. Read More...
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S4C has awarded Capital Law a contract to provide production support services. Read More...
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A housing project in west Cardiff will be one of the biggest winners from a £39m Welsh Government economic stimulus package focused on skills and construction. Read More...
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Swansea University has recruited Alison Wride, former deputy director of Exeter University’s business school, to be head of Swansea’s new College of Business, Economics and Law. Read More...
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