Some advice for the Tees Valley LEP - should I dare?

Of course I am blogging about Enterprise.
What did you expect, I am really passionate about it and I am really passionate about the Tees Valley.
Working in London on Tuesday to meet the great and the good, to hear their views and hopefully contribute something to the Enterprise Agenda, something positive.
I came away feeling that the reality of living in the North East especially in the Tees Valley is so far away from what policy makers think it is, that it could be really dispiriting.
Then I thought about all of the people I have met over the last 10 years who run the Enterprise schemes as well as the people who have started a business (over 7000 by the way) and also my role within that. I came up with the following conclusions:

