The Omagh Enterprise Centre is a hub for Project Kelvin, a telecommunications cable linking Northern Ireland to the USA and Europe.
This is the message of an important new book, The Case for Business in Developing Economies, by Ann Bernstein, the founder of the Centre for Development and Enterprise in Johannesburg.
The Housing, Regeneration and Heritage Minister Huw Lewis was giving evidence on the enterprise committee's inquiry into town centre regeneration, on 24 November 2011.
Cardiff council leader Rodney Berman said designating the city centre as a financial services enterprise zone would help it compete with English cities and regions.
His LEP also bid successfully for the city centre to be designated a Local Enterprise Zone, benefiting from streamlined planning regulations, improved broadband access and other incentives for business start ups.
"The Heritage Lottery Fund is pleased to be giving its initial support for phase one of wider plans which have the potential to transform the site into a centre for learning, leisure and social enterprise, " she said.
The Merry Hill Shopping Centre stands as a gleaming example of an enterprise zone established under the last Conservative government.
The drive is part of Operation Enterprise, a project run by Norfolk Constabulary, Norwich City Centre Management Team and Norfolk Drugs and Alcohol Action Team.
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The proposed new facility, which has the backing of economic development agency Scottish Enterprise, will be an extension of SSE's Glasgow-based Centre of Engineering Excellence for Renewable Energy.
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Industry body Scottish Financial Enterprise described the move as a "sound endorsement" of Edinburgh as a leading financial services centre.
The new mayor also wants the Temple Meads Enterprise Zone to be larger, extending into Redcliffe, to link the train station there with the city centre, and he wants controls over supermarkets within Bristol's planning system.
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