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There was quite a reaction when the world’s most famous investor, Warren Buffett, announced last November that he had accumulated in excess of $10bn in IBM stock – enough for a five per cent stake in the company.

Buffett has traditionally shunned the high-tech sector, instead favouring the more predictable earnings derived from less glamorous industrial companies. His long-standing argument was that he simply didn’t know enough about the technology sector to profit from it.

So what does he know about it now? Professor Simon Mosey, of Nottingham University Business School, examines the farsighted motives behind the Sage of Omaha’s seminal move into the high-tech and sustainable sectors.

It is easy to be blinded by its surge towards superpower status, but China does not have a monopoly on success.

Research by the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre and Nottingham University Business School sheds an instructive light on the sophistication of supply chains and production networks in East Asia.

As study author Dr Eunice Ngat-Chin Lim explains, the findings underline that, while China predictably dominates, many of the Dragon’s neighbours still have vital parts to play – and thus something to offer.

Breaking up the eurozone would represent a “nightmare” scenario and lead to another major financial crisis, one of the most influential voices in economics has told an audience at the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre.

Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf predicted the risk of a break-up would remain “significant” in the coming years but said such a course should be resisted.

Delivering a Leverhulme Globalisation Lecture, Wolf – often described as the world’s pre-eminent financial journalist – suggested it could take a decade for the eurozone to return to health.