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Peter Mandelson

Published on
November 20, 1998
Last updated
May 27, 2015

In a speech earlier this month Peter Mandelson, secretary of state for trade and industry, said that the promotion of enterprise must be at the heart of the government's approach to science, "turning the universities from ivory towers into business partners". The Competitiveness white paper, due in December, will come from his department.

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