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Cameron urges CBI to help create growth via new jobs
Business Digest: You provide new jobs and new products, and we'll back you, says PM
Prime Minister David Cameron today urged the CBI to help the coalition government create new private sector jobs needed to rebuild the economy. He said ministers would dedicate themselves to promoting British business and helping create the conditions in which dynamic entrepreneurialism could flourish.
Addressing the business leaders' annual conference, he said there would be a "forensic, relentless focus on growth" over the months ahead. "What I need in return from you is a commitment to create and innovate, to invest and grow, to develop and break boundaries.
"The new jobs, the new products, the new ideas that will lift us up will be born in the factories and offices you own not in the corridors of Whitehall."
The government will invest more than £200 million in technology and innovation centres, designed to bring universities and business together - a project based on a plan drawn up by the vacuum cleaner entrepreneur James Dyson.
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