International perspectives on establishing a tech center
How do you create a viable, growing technology center? That’s a question that seems to come up regularly in Southern California, and one I think we’ve managed to pretty much accomplish, albeit not in any centralized way. However, we thought it would be interesting to see how another region of the world — the United Kingdom — has been approaching establishing themselves as a technology center, so we took up the offer by UK Trade and Investment to learn more about efforts in that country. We sent Travis Oberlander to London this week to delve into the UK’s efforts to create “Tech City UK”, as well as to talk with a group of Southern California companies traveling there to the Tech City Entrepreneurs Festival to develop relationships in that country. Travis will be posting updates, interview (he has one today with Andrew Humphries of UK Tech City), and articles on what he learns.
