The UK's new TechCity policy is great – but we'll also need the TechPeople
Summary
This is a guest post by Tom Allason, founder & CEO of Shutl, a web-service that enables retailers to offer shoppers immediate/convenient delivery of online purchases. Yesterday I had the curious pleasure of being invited to join a panel at an event put on by No.10 to announce the launch of Tech City and the Government’s commitment to supporting technology based innovation. If you have spent any time around the UK’s tech entrepreneurs you would think that the single matter holding back start-ups is lack of access to bank debt and investment. The real reason you could never start Google in UK has nothing to do with IP laws – where would we find the thousands of engineers required to create it? This means we need to ensure that the Apples, Googles, Microsofts, Orcales, Intels, Ciscos and Facebooks of today and tomorrow have reason to hire those employees here.