We are all happy to consume innovative technology – but how many of us are interested in doing all the hard thinking and sums required to create it?
Not enough of us, says Sir James Dyson, the British inventor and entrepreneur whose vacuum cleaners are now world-famous after his rugs-to-riches story. The chronic shortage of engineers in developed countries needs to be addressed, and Sir James has put his money where his mouth is by funding a new technology university in Wiltshire, England.
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