London’s tech startup scene is hot — just don’t compare it to Silicon Valley Down a flight of stairs, past a photo of British mod icon Paul Weller, and into the basement of Google’s campus in the ultra hip area of East London, sit Britain’s home-grown budding Kevin Systroms and David Karps (well, at least wannabes). On a weekday afternoon, almost every seat, desk, couch and stool in the free co-working café in Google’s basement is filled with young web and mobile entrepreneurs, hunched over their laptops, building decks, and chatting excitedly about their next big idea. Google London Campus, image courtesy of Google. Every major city it seems these days has its techie hubs, but London’s tech scene has been steadily growing over the past several years. It’s way too easy to make the comparison between Silicon Valley of a few years back and the East London of today. The growth of London tech But something’s clearly been brewing for a couple years now. The Shoreditch Grind espresso bar in East London Internet giants, too, are investing in London. An emerging sector
Conseil stratégique de l’attractivité : l’innovation à l’honneur Le Conseil stratégique de l’attractivité s’est tenu à l’Elysée le 17 février 2014 en présence de plusieurs ministres du Gouvernement et de chefs d’entreprise. A cette occasion, des mesures du programme Invest in France ont été présentées. Celles-ci sont destinées à renforcer la politique d'accueil des investissements directs étrangers et l'attractivité de la France. ©Présidence de la République La France est une destination de premier ordre pour les investissements directs étrangers. L'innovation, la recherche et les start-up à l'honneur Parmi les mesures du programme Invest in France, un volet « innovation, recherche et start-up », porté par Arnaud Montebourg et Fleur Pellerin, a été mis en avant. Lire + Lancement du Concours mondial de l’innovation - 02/12/201334 projets de la Nouvelle France industrielle - 12/09/2013Initiative French Tech, l'appel à labellisation - 29/01/2014 Faciliter l’implantation des entreprises étrangères en France
Halle Freyssinet : les travaux vont pouvoir commencer Halle Freyssinet : les travaux vont pouvoir commencer La Halle Freyssinet accueillera dès 2016 le plus grand incubateur du monde. Cette future locomotive de l’entrepreneuriat, créée en partenariat avec la Ville de Paris, et co-financée par la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations et par Xavier Niel, vient de se voir délivrer son permis de construire. Ce nouvel incubateur qui représente le plus grand incubateur au monde accueillera 1 000 start-up innovantes, tous secteurs confondus. Ce projet inédit qui représente une 1ère mondiale a pour objectif de permettre le développement d’une nouvelle génération d’entreprises qui seront les succès de demain et dont la France a besoin pour rayonner à l’international et renforcer sa compétitivité. La Halle Freyssinet, un monument préservé au service de l'innovation Dans la lignée de sa politique d’appui à l’économie numérique et aux startups, la Ville de Paris soutient l’implantation d’un incubateur dans la Halle Freyssinet. En savoir plus
Tech City Map - Home Tech City Map is a constantly-evolving compendium of East London's vibrant technology and creative ecosystem. In addition to showing where businesses are located Tech City Map uses advanced technology from Trampoline Systems to reveal the web of connections linking them together and calculate each company's influence in the community. The platform works by pulling in streams of Twitter data from each business and tracking following relationships, mentions and retweets. It was launched by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in November 2011 at the Trampery in Shoreditch, East London. What businesses are included? One of East London's great strengths is its inter-disciplinary creative community. What area is covered by the map? The UK Government's Tech City initiative is focused on the cluster of technology businesses located in East London. Where does the information come from? Tech City Map was launched with a database of 819 business.
PM announces £50m funding to regenerate Old Street roundabout Prime Minister David Cameron today announced a major Government investment in Tech City. The Government will put £50m towards a visionary project to regenerate the Old Street roundabout, which will see it transformed into Europe’s largest indoor civic space, dedicated to start-ups and entrepreneurs in East London. This new civic building will host classrooms, co-working spaces and workshops equipped with the latest 3D printing technology, for use by both the local start-ups and the wider community. These announcements from the Government were accompanied by a host of major corporate commitments to Tech City, including the following: Microsoft is establishing a Technology Development Centre in the heart of Tech City as part of their commitment to the cluster, and will support local technology development, work to inspire innovation and provide expertise and guidance to those with new and innovative ideas. Prime Minister David Cameron said: The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said:
Paris VS Tech City Londres: le vrai du faux : Challenges Qui de Paris ou de Londres est la plus attractive pour les Start Up ? Depuis l’annonce faite par la ministre Fleur Pellerin d’établir un nouveau quartier numérique dans la capitale en 2014, la rivalité entre les deux villes ne cesse de s’exacerber. Dès 2010, Londres a lancé son immense chantier de la "Tech City", dans le quartier des anciennes "tea houses", à l’Est de Londres. Pour les départager : une visite de la Tech City londonienne, organisée pour la presse, et les réponses de la Ville de Paris. Paris 2014 VS London Tech City : "The Battle" (et fact-checking). 1. Soyons honnêtes dès le premier round : Paris se sent toute petite face à sa voisine tentaculaire et le concède volontiers. 2. Dans l'entourage de Boris Johnson, le maire de Londres, on annonce 1.384 Start Up. ...Sauf si l'on tient compte de l'estimation du think tank Centre for London qui, lui, évalue à 3.800 le nombre de sociétés implantées, drainant au total 48.000 salariés dans l'Est londonien. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Paris, la France, le paradis des Start-up... : Challenges Qu’on se le dise, à moins d’un an des municipales de 2014, l’adjoint au maire de Paris Jean-Louis Missika est entré en campagne. En charge de l’innovation et engagé aux côté de la candidate socialiste Anne Hidlago, il a convié la presse "dans les anciens appartements privés de la famille Tibéri" pour faire un bilan de la politique d’innovation réalisée à Paris pendant l'ère Delanoë. Capitale mondiale de l’innovation, le Paris de demain se fera avec son équipe ou ne se fera pas. "If you’re going to San Francisco…" Côté financements, l’Etat a co-financé deux incubateurs Paris Biotech et Agoranov. Pour les jeunes entreprises en quête de fonds, l’environnement parisien est donc idéal, ou presque... …come back Une vue extra large sur le monde pour ne pas voir les bataillons de jeunes entrepreneurs qui décident de quitter l’Hexagone ? Paris n’a donc pas à rougir face à la Tech City de Londres ou à Berlin.
Tech City – believe the hype? | Technology Since the Coalition came to power in May 2010, the Tech City initiative has had significant money, PR and industry support thrown behind it. Tech City is often trumpeted as the saviour of the UK's flagging economy and the ultimate replacement for a broken financial services industry by capitalising on two of the UK's greatest, but underexploited, strengths – science and innovation. But how much innovation is actually taking place in Tech City? And what about other burgeoning tech clusters in the UK? When Cameron announced in November 2010 that the UK government would be throwing its weight behind Tech City, he was clear about what he wanted to achieve. "Our ambition is to bring together the creativity and energy of Shoreditch and the incredible possibilities of the Olympic Park to help make east London one of the world's great technology centres," he said. "Tech City has become a thriving hub of tech-based enterprise and creativity," said Shields. Number crunch Slow movers? Brighton rocks
Exclusive: Is this the end for Tech City London? Drastic changes for Tech City in London from April 2014 Responsibility for London’s Tech City will be handed over to London & Partners from the next financial year, Tech City News can exclusively reveal. Following the departure of Joanna Shields earlier today, the future for the Tech City UK quango is looking increasingly bleak. Responsibility moves to London & Partners Government sources have confirmed as of the next financial year responsibility for the London part of Tech City will fall to London & Partners, the Mayor’s official promotional organisation for London. London & Partners is a not for profit body designed to promote London on the world stage and is funded by the Mayor’s office and commercial partners. Their activities include promoting investment, business partnerships and more recently supporting London Technology Week. Rebrand to Tech City UK Political tug of war Boris Johnson opening Level39 with Eric van der Kleij What’s next? These streets are about to change