article_snippet: Clegg will call for the science budget to be protected from cuts and the the amount of public money spent on innovation to be doubled.
article_snippet: The party's manifesto will also commit to doubling innovation spending across the economy, increasing the Government contribution in real terms by 2020-21 from £454 million in 2014-15 to more than £1 billion.
article_snippet: Now is the time to be ambitious about our future. '
article_snippet: That is hugely ambitious but absolutely possible.
article_snippet: To do it we need two things: to secure the recovery; and to put in place an ambitious long-term plan that harnesses and encourages the skills and dynamism of British workers and British businesses.'
article_snippet: Our industrial strategy has laid the foundations to give business the confidence to invest over a number of years by planning for the provision of skills, finance and innovation. '
article_snippet: the global skills pool our country needs to grow.