Cultural Diversity and Entrepreneurship

In Brent we often praise our diversity, but we seldom do much hard research into the claimed benefits.  I saw some such research here.  In so far as Brent Council actively encourages economic growth, it should ponder this kind of thing.  The authors arguments are that the keys to benefiting from immigration is that the immigrants be highly skilled, but able to integrate with local structures fairly easily.  Might seem obvious, but it does not fit in well with Homes Office policy.  It is also worth thinking about how the Councils could use things like BACES or public libraries to foster this.