Recovery requires global leadership, cooperation

• Source: Global Times
• [23:00 February 22 2010]
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We have maintained our position as the best place in Europe for innovation, pharmaceuticals, Information and Communication Technology, financial services and creative industries – a sector that goes from film and fashion to architecture and the media. Fifteen of the world's 75 top-selling medicines were discovered or developed in Britain.

The UK has the most extensive broadband market in the G7, four of the world's top six universities and is already a net exporter of low carbon goods and services.

And Britain now boasts the world's largest installed capacity of offshore wind electricity generation.

This week in London is a chance to share knowledge, build relationships and learn lessons from the financial crisis and recession. Focus will be on investment, innovation and industries of the future.

For a decade Britain has been one of the hubs of the global economy.

As we move from recession to recovery, I am optimistic that the UK remains a great place to do business – and a great place from which to do business.

The author is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom