Business and Other Briefings

WAG: A new pilot initiative by the Welsh Government aims to encourage collaboration between large & small businesses and other potential partners, all for the benefit of the Welsh economy. 7 large & significant Welsh anchor businesses have competed successfully for an Open Innovation Development Award to originate new, innovative relationships with other businesses and external parties.   Each can employ an ‘open innovation champion’ to develop & implement their proposals.
 
The concept of open innovation has attained widespread interest in recent years, and is based on the realisation that large companies cannot find solutions to all of their new product development issues in-house.  Instead their customers, suppliers, inventors, universities or other stakeholders may hold valuable insights into their problems.
Press release & links
 
DWPDisabled people will get more support to gain the skills & experience they need to get a job under changes to the government’s specialist disability employment scheme announced last week. Disabled people on traineeships, supported internships, work trials & work academies will get additional help through the Access to Work scheme - See ‘Policy Statements & Initiatives’ section for more information.
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