
20 Nov 2023
Economics
Show me the money – why pensions are key to fixing the UK’s investment drought
Building a technology company takes money. Lots of money. ASML, the world-leading Dutch semiconductor machinery company, took nine years to become profitable. Yet without enormous, years-long investment by the private sector, ASML – and the cutting-edge chips it makes – wouldn’t exist. But less than half of the UK’s most innovative firms reach their second […]