Jake's View | Housing - not science - is the best use of land at Science Park's fourth phase
A successful Science Park requires us to be larger and more vertically integrated in technology
Hi-tech ways to allow the elderly to remain independent as they age and innovations to help small and medium-sized firms take advantage of the digital world - these are likely to be among the key points of a landmark study plotting the future of the city's technology landscape.
They couldn't script it better in Hollywood. Last week the government made noises about taking away the site of the proposed Phase 4 of Science Park for housing and, right on schedule, Science Park launches a study to discover new uses for Phase 4.
They will be fashionable ones, too, what a surprise - help for the elderly and for small and medium enterprises. If only Science Park chairman Nick Brooke, a career property man, could learn to wrap his tongue around words like "holistic" and "socially inclusive stakeholder" the pitch could be politically correct the whole way.
We are given some examples of the new ideas, however, for instance a sob story about a man whose mother couldn't keep up with the family on her iPad and so he invented a way of letting her do it on television. Now it's a bright new Science Park start-up. How heart-warming.