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24 Apr 2015

Start-Ups Disrupting UK Tech Sector

The UK is fast becoming the entrepreneurial hub of Europe and Cambridge is one of the cities flying the flag.

Research released last month from Barclays and Business Growth Fund showed a staggering 8.6 per cent of 18 to 64-year-olds are involved in start-ups. Thanks to growth in crowdfunding, incubators and accelerators, it is easier than ever for start-ups to get off the ground. Cambridge finds itself at the very centre of the boom, bringing in an impressive £135 million in investment funding in 2014 second only to London according to Business Zone.

Government policy is also increasingly placing entrepreneurial innovation as a top priority, especially within technology.  The 2015 budget announcement made by George Osborne pledged £500 million towards next generation technologies, an indication of just how much value is placed on the technology sector’s potential future contribution to the UK economy. Included within the announcement was a promise of review on regulation which is inhibiting innovation within disruptive technology.

“The typical timeline from taking a high-tech product from inception to market has been reduced substantially in the last decade,” said Benedikt von Thuengen, CEO at Speechmatics, a young speech recognition company.  “These shorter product lifecycles coupled with extremely low entry barriers means that technology start–ups are booming; but as a result it has become a crowded marketplace with a lot of background noise making it more important than ever to stand out from the crowd.”

With this crowded marketplace in mind, Cambridge Wireless is putting together a dedicated Start-up Zone at this year’s Future of Wireless International Conference at the Emirates Stadium in London on 23 and 24 June. ‘The Start-up Zone will be a fantastic opportunity for UK and international start-ups to exhibit the hottest technologies, apps, solutions and gadgets they have to offer,” said Gerlinde Gniewosz, CEO of KO-SU. “As winners of the CW Discovering Start Ups Competition last year we are very excited to have another platform to showcase ourselves.”

To book a table for the Start-Up Zone or further information please contact Lisa Ellis on [email protected], or call +44 (0)1223 967103.

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