Great article in the FT about the Silicon Roundabout, Shoreditch. Fighting talk about the new cluster developing next to The City, London. All that financial knowledge just across the traffic island readily available to budding entrepreneurs.
In the business plan resource guide by Equity Fingerprint, there is a diagram based on research by the previous Director of the Judge Business School, Arnoud de Meyer, of the key ingredients of a cluster – the type defined in the original work by Prof Porter. One of the key features is that a cluster is based round a world-class university such as Stanford, MIT and Harvard.
But this article compares the Silicon Roundabout with those hot-spots in Dublin and Berlin. Sure there may be a lot of activity in those two wonderful cities but they are not on the radar of the Silicon Valley groupies.
A good question to raise at the Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge event.
But of course if we could only get more companies from the Cambridge Cluster such as Autonomy on The City radar, then we would stop going round in circles and start motoring! Too many hit a red light too early.
Hat tip: JPB
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