Comment by Simon Bond, SETsquared

The themes of this year’s GCV Symposium – sustainability and impact investing – capture the “let us build back better” attitude that I have seen emerging across our ecosystem as we start to reimagine what our future could and should be like.

GCV Symposium’s choice of themes has an uncanny knack for setting the agenda for the future – May 2019’s theme was “navigating through the turbulence”.

How prophetic and what a timely call for preparedness. This year’s choices of sustainability and impact investing are similarly agenda-setting and I am certain they will define our next decade and more.

SETsquared has “navigated the turbulence” of the past couple of years and is back, both bigger and better. In truth, SETsquared has always been growing – today’s ecosystem of spinout, startup and scale-up ventures is tenfold the original scale envisaged when we were founded in 2002.

However, with Cardiff University joining…

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