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European deindustrialisation: innovation growth and jobs What are we doing today and where do we want to be? Dirk Hudig Fipra International

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European deindustrialisation: innovation growth and jobs

What are we doing today and where do we want to be?

Dirk HudigFipra International

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G7 employment shares by sector, c.1900-2009

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These jobs don’t exist anymore…

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A horse-drawn tram

The average horse would produce 14kg of manure per day,evidence of which can be seen above

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Thomas Malthus:“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.”

An essay on the Principle of Population, 1798

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Growth in wheat yields per hectare

Area of land harvested

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Francis Crick and James Watson: discovered ‘the secret of life’ 1953 The double helix

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Reg cttee quote

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Worldwide cultivation areas with genetically modified plants in millions of hectares (1996 – 2009)

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Online edition of The Telegraph, 11 September 2012

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