"One of the pressures for us, for growing business, is going to be demand on office space. Having a good office to work in, in an open-plan setting which excites young people particularly to come and work, is an issue for Bath so it has to get that right this balance between good affordable office space for early-stage and start-up companies that's going to be important. Ensuring that universities locally do more to engage with local businesses, I think is crucial, I think they've done a reasonable job and I think that could be improved. We are always at pains to make good relationships with Bath Spa University, Bath University, universities in Bristol, West of England to take time for a smaller business to engage properly, so I think a combination of working with universities and accessing its graduate pools is going to be really important for Bath to stay ahead as already a great start and actually how does it really develop its heritage of being a creative centre. So Bath has been very good at encouraging people in the creative industries whether it's what was future publishing, focusing on magazine production that's obviously gone digital and keeping those sorts of skills close and within Bath is going to be important to how it develops. I think it's about how you politically drive and lead that change going forward and I see some signs that, I think Bristol doing very well in that respect as well and obviously plans by the waterfront are going to be an exciting part of bath development.""One of the pressures for us, for growing business, is going to be demand on office space. Having a good office to work in, in an open-plan setting which excites young people particularly to come and work, is an issue for Bath so it has to get that right this balance between good affordable office space for early-stage and start-up companies that's going to be important. Ensuring that universities locally do more to engage with local businesses, I think is crucial, I think they've done a reasonable job and I think that could be improved. We are always at pains to make good relationships with Bath Spa University, Bath University, universities in Bristol, West of England to take time for a smaller business to engage properly, so I think a combination of working with universities and accessing its graduate pools is going to be really important for Bath to stay ahead as already a great start and actually how does it really develop its heritage of being a creative centre. So Bath has been very good at encouraging people in the creative industries whether it's what was future publishing, focusing on magazine production that's obviously gone digital and keeping those sorts of skills close and within Bath is going to be important to how it develops. I think it's about how you politically drive and lead that change going forward and I see some signs that, I think Bristol doing very well in that respect as well and obviously plans by the waterfront are going to be an exciting part of bath development."
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