Last week I wrote a piece for Business Spectator on the contrast between countries competing for tech investment and skills.
Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny was in Silicon Valley promoting Ireland as an investment and operating location while in London the Queen hosted 350 British tech companies at Buckingham Palace.
Earlier this week President Obama hosted the first White House Makers’ Faire with over thirty inventors showing their ideas.
All of this contrasts with the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recent North America where he touted the country was ‘open for business’ by offering mines and toll roads to Canadian pension funds.
It’s clear some countries’ leaders recognise they live in the Twentieth First Century while others are struggling with Twentieth Century.