Board member Professor Steve Garlick was in Sweden last week to disseminate the PURE report for Värmland (see below) at the cluster conference organised by Staffan Bjurulf, Project Manager for the region. Anders Olsson, Enterprise and Innovation Manager for Värmland,  reports that the region has continued the discussion on how to tackle work on a strategy to develop the region's human capabilities. All the other recommendations in the report are being addressed, and Anders says that the PURE report 'will make it easier for us to keep the speed up'.

Media coverage was extensive; a radio interview can be found here and here are some news links;

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