Big Business vs Big Ideas.
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Big Business vs Big Ideas If Gordon Brown was serious yesterday about creating an environment for "business dynamism" like that of the United States, he could do no better than to champion the entrepreneurial work of Conwy Council in North Wales. Conwy has done as all business people advocate, and turned its liabilities into assets. Like every local authority in Britain, it was faced with demands for money it did not possess. Among its liabilities were a secondary school in Llandudno in urgent need of modernisation, and a piece of land which no one wanted to buy. In the best business tradition, it has decided to resolve its two problems into a single opportunity. Rather than rebuilding the school on its existing site, it will sell the property to the superstore chain Asda/Walmart, for a rumoured pounds20 million, and move the school onto the unwanted land. The land is unwanted because...


