Knock on wood: why trade and brand will trump tech in the advanced bioeconomy

We have important elections coming up. Britain faces a major referendum on exiting the EU, Australia has a federal election next month, and in November the US has its elections.

If you are a Hillary Clinton supporter, you’ll take heart in this diagram that shows us in a Democratic year at the Presidential level. My father was in politics for many years and he told me that 24 hours is a long time in the political world, much less the four and a half months until the US elections, and also never to pay attention to campaign rhetoric, because it is symbolic messaging aimed at a small number of swing voters and not an indication of how a government will proceed.