The common wisdom with a lot of the stuff we've done at the OECD is basically that if you don't get your overall environment for innovation right, if you don't get your business environment right, then a lot of the other things you want to do will not work. I think you first need to get that environment very right, and then you can also get a lot more returns out of your investments in science and innovation. So you need to definitely get your market environment right, and then I think you can get more out of science and innovation too.
On February 5th, 2008. See this statement in context.