Scotsman.com Business - Management - Firms 'miss out' on tax credits for innovation
..."In America the knowledge-based companies, including technology companies, get about 50% of their revenue from the public sector. Companies like Oracle would have been in Chapter 11 [administration] if the government hadn't purchased from them from their inception."
He [Iain Graham, chief executive of Renfrewshire software company Graham Technology] says that if the politicians believe that Scotland has good quality people then they must support them.
"Currently they must consider the intellectual group in Scotland to be so stupid they won't spend any money with them. They go to America for all their purchases," he says.
"Can't we move the public sector into the 21st century and buy the leading technology that American companies are buying from Scottish companies in our sector?"...
K-Collector Topics: Knowledge Economy knowledge work America Oracle