Silicon Roundabout Concepts

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

by Leo Hollis · 31 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 118,314 words

start from the street up and involve all those who live there. It is often where the best ideas come from. 4 A CREATIVE PLACE Silicon Roundabout. I exit the subway and part of me expects to see something resembling Superman’s Fortress of Solitude, a palace of crystalline shards pointing into

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gripping bananas instead of guns – has been painted over. Instead, nearby, a new mural seems to sum up the neighbourhood: CHANGE. ‘Change’ is coming. Near Silicon Roundabout As I circumnavigate the roundabout, I stand in front of the window of What Architects that has a witty display of models built out of

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, so this new generation of cafés is fuelling the Information Age. There are many connections between the coffee houses of the 1600s and places like Silicon Roundabout today. As centres of information and trade, the first coffee houses established a forum for the new kind of urban, creative economy. It was here

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innovation. If cities are the natural environment for innovation, is this something that we can nurture? And what is the best way of doing this? Silicon Roundabout was attracting creative companies long before David Cameron and his quango cavalry arrived. Does government have a role in promoting initiatives like Tech City? In

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revolution. All the same energy and innovation that could be felt amongst the canals and squares of seventeenth-century Amsterdam can be found today at Silicon Roundabout. The metropolis has a unique propensity for new ideas, improvement and adaptions, the cross-fertilisation of good notions. For centuries the city has been the

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the ‘Bilbao effect’, developing a place where small start-ups and multinational companies can share the same car park, attracting talent from around the world. Silicon Roundabout Such schemes can be tremendously successful. Within a year of Cameron’s announcement, Tech City had attracted huge attention from global companies. The high-profile

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the airport is sufficient to inspire economic revolution is a foolish one that has trapped many cities which have rebranded themselves as ‘creative’. When considering Silicon Roundabout as a creative place, or Bangalore as a centre of innovation, therefore, the long-term history of the neighbourhood has a more powerful influence on

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and information swaps. Investors and angels can come and see what is happening and offer advice, perhaps even investment, connecting new entrepreneurs with the wider Silicon Roundabout community. There are small office spaces for private meetings and, for the more regular workers, a permanent desk. The project is geared to promote connections

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the quietness and atmosphere of concentration within the main spaces, this place is as active as the Amsterdam Bourse on a busy day. Inside TechHub Silicon Roundabout was born out of enterprises and good ideas like TechHub; however, this new community has not been built on a blank slate but upon decades

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pinch of salt. It appears to be something of a rebranding exercise with the aim of attracting foreign investment rather than stimulating grass-roots activity. Silicon Roundabout is not a science park that has been raised up on the outside of the city; it is located in the heart of one of

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starting a business rather than being forced to work on new projects around the day job. In addition, Varley suggested that we should stop comparing Silicon Roundabout with Silicon Valley. The comparisons make little sense, she noted: Santa Clara is a one-industry town while London is creative in so many different

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ways. It is unlikely that the UK will develop a new Facebook or Twitter, but with initiatives like the DCE (the Digital City Exchange) connecting Silicon Roundabout with academics from Imperial College, London, there is hope of finding innovations in healthcare, sustainability or data management. Similarly, I hoped to find the same

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had spawned Headstart and Start-Up Saturdays, two initiatives that have now expanded nationally. Jonnalagadda was optimistic. He highlighted that the community – just as in Silicon Roundabout – had yet to reach critical mass in terms of technology, capital or the size of the market. India was still waiting for its Moshi Monsters

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these people are reading all the same websites as people in Silicon Valley and watching the success that is happening there’. But just as in Silicon Roundabout, that talent needs to be developed. Good ideas come about as a result of the interconnections between people, places and notions. If Bangalore is going

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, places like Jaaga are as important in nurturing the possible as the legislative and entrepreneurial support that give life to business. As I return to Silicon Roundabout once more, I am forced to rethink my assumptions about the creative city. I need to reconsider how the long-term history of the neighbourhood

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flip a place into the twenty-first century with the holy doctrine of the knowledge economy replacing anything that looks old, does not wash. At Silicon Roundabout, I sense that the neighbourhood is thriving without the branding of Tech City. This is not because of large corporate behemoths who come in and

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28. Tactical Urbanism, Volume 1, pp.1–2. Chapter 4: A Creative Place 1. www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010–11/04/david-cameron-silicon-roundabout 2. travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/travel/23bilbao.html 3. www.guggenheimbilbao.es/uploads/area_prensa/notas/en/PR_Results_2010.PDF 4. www

The Flat White Economy

by Douglas McWilliams · 15 Feb 2015 · 193pp · 47,808 words

that’s within reach of the less expensive housing in East and North London. That is why Old Street Roundabout has become popularly known as ‘Silicon Roundabout. The scale of this new economy is such that it has affected – directly or indirectly – the whole UK economy. Roughly one third of the UK

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well be up by 50% when 2014 figures become available. The patch of London we are talking about is known by a number of names – ‘Silicon Roundabout’, ‘Tech City’, ‘East London Tech City’. Some claim it is the third-largest technology startup cluster in the world after San Francisco and New York

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UK Esquire article about Silicon Roundabout19 describes a ‘Ping Pong Fight Club’, “a wholesome night-time gathering of the brightest tech sparks from London’s Silicon Roundabout, and a mock-competitive midweek tournament featuring 64 players (both male and female, though mostly male), sixteen rounds of table-tennis, six bright blue tables

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Gladiators fall on the deaf ears of an audience whose mean age is pushing the upper limits of 27.” The point is made that the Silicon Roundabout lifestyle involves both work and play and that the two are mutually reinforcing. The article describes the teams as representing a range of different types

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around the world with sufficient critical mass to make progress – Silicon Valley of course and Boston with its leadership in electronic medical applications, Tech City/Silicon Roundabout in London, the Paris-Saclay Cluster, Moscow Skolkovo Innovation City, Israel, Bangalore and Beijing. MIT identify strong intellectual property protection, liberal immigration rules (see Chapter

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has moved a mobile development team to the area, Google has expanded quickly into new buildings and drug companies are piling in too.”4 Around Silicon Roundabout in London, rents shot up in 2013 to over £40 per square foot (£70 including services), but have fallen back slightly since as new space

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founded in special economic zones such as Hangzhou and Shenzhen, Z-innoway subsumes a startup culture on a smaller scale that is more reminiscent of Silicon Roundabout in London and Silicon Valley. A key characteristic of the district is ‘startup cafes’ such as Garage Café and 3W Coffee, which host startups meetings

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the New Dock area in Leeds (with one eye to the anticipated High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link intend to shape it as a Northern ‘Silicon Roundabout’. Perhaps the most surprising area on our list is Milton Keynes. It neither fits the M4 corridor model nor the major city model. But the

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#.VETGl_nF-So 18. www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-ama-2014–9#ixzz3GflCaosA 19. www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/5720/the-silicon-roundabout 20. The article attributes the phrase Silicon Roundabout to a tweet from software developer Matt Biddulph working out of Moo.com in July 2007. 21. www.theguardian.com/technology/2013

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technology policies of ref1 Scottish Media Group (STV) ref1 Second World War (1939–45) Blitz, The (1940–1) ref1 shared accommodation ref1 Silicon Canal ref1 Silicon Roundabout ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 Silicon Valley ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 role of US government defence spending in development of ref1 social culture

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss · 12 Sep 2012

currently excels in with the creators of TweetDeck, Last.fm and Moo.com – the creators of the ubiquitous Moshi Monsters – all based in Shoreditch’s Silicon Roundabout.115 However, it is only through a technically literate and highly educated workforce that the UK, and the rest of the West, will be able

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18,755 23,120 21,860 170,005 160,395 Already, there are promising signs of an organically growing start-up scene in London’s Silicon Roundabout and Tech City. There are now an estimated 5,000 technology companies in East London.44 While none has the importance of a Google or

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taxi drivers or in the culture of the City of London. The British no longer lead the world in innovation, but the start-ups of Silicon Roundabout show the spirit of entrepreneurism still lives on. Britain will never be as big as China or Brazil, but we can look forward to a

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://online.wsj.com/article/SB115352188346314087.html 43. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115352188346314087.html 44. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/06/silicon-roundabout Chapter 6 1. http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/03/20/transcript-obama-speech-rio-dejaneiro-brazil-march-20-2011/ 2. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03

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securitisation 35 Sedi 103 seed capital 84, 98 see also venture capital Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme 98 Seedrs 98 Sela, Yonatan 86 Sequoia Capital 98 Silicon Roundabout (London) 55, 97, 112 Silicon Valley 93–4, 95, 97, 554 Simon, Leslie 48 Singapore 5, 66, 113 smart phones 55 Smith, Adam 20 Snow

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words

of US tech companies by emulating California’s startup haven, the Silicon Valley. Examples of Silicon Valley replicas include “Silicon Wadi” in Tel-Aviv, Israel; “Silicon Roundabout” in London, UK; “Chilecon Valley” in Santiago, Chile; “Silicon Allee” in Berlin, Germany; “Silicon Lagoon” in Lagos, Nigeria; and “Silicon Savannah” in Nairobi, Kenya. One

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, 35 Sherry, Linda, 355–56 Shu Yinbiao, 305 Sichuan, China, 314 Siemens, 263, 321 Siemens/Alstom, 248 Silicon Allee (Berlin), 263 Silicon Lagoon (Lagos), 263 Silicon Roundabout (London), 263 Silicon Savannah (Nairobi), 263 Silicon Valley, 7–8, 33–35, 42, 92–93, 263, 283–84, 374 Silicon Wadi (Tel-Aviv), 263 Singapore

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 7 Nov 2017 · 346pp · 89,180 words

-innovation sectors. (Witness the dozens of Silicon-soundalike names that have been coined around the world in homage to northern California’s tech cluster—from Silicon Roundabout in London and Silicon Wadi in Israel, to any number of more aspirational variants elsewhere.) Cluster policy is appealing in part because of the glamorous

The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology (Voices That Matter)

by Golden Krishna · 10 Feb 2015 · 271pp · 62,538 words

, 44. Silicon Hills, 45. Silicon Lagoon, 46. Silicon Lane, 47. Silicon Mall, 48. Silicon Mallee, 49. Silicon Mill, 50. Silicon Peninsula, 51. Silicon Pier, 52. Silicon Roundabout, 53. Silicon Sandbar, 54. Silicon Savannah, 55. Silicon Saxony, 56. Silicon Sentier, 57. Silicon Shipyard, 58. Silicon Shire, 59. Silicon Shore, 60. Silicon Sloboda, 61

European Founders at Work

by Pedro Gairifo Santos · 7 Nov 2011 · 353pp · 104,146 words

the never ending obsession of trying to duplicate Silicon Valley to focusing on what's good about Europe. London is doing a lot around the Silicon Roundabout and government focus, Berlin is being hyped as a great base for startups, Copenhagen and Dublin are definitely recognized as strong ecosystems and we're

Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse

by Adrian Wooldridge · 29 Nov 2011 · 460pp · 131,579 words

encouraging entrepreneurialism is synonymous with creating your own version of Silicon Valley—hence Silicon Alley, in New York; Silicon Glen, in Scotland; and even, depressingly, Silicon Roundabout, in London. But most Silicon knockoffs are failures. There is no point in trying to create the next Silicon Valley if you lack the Valley

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words

, “notably the current account, which allows people to store money in a way that keeps it safe and permanently accessible. Few in Silicon Valley or Silicon Roundabout want to take on that heavily regulated bit of finance.” The Economist’s article highlighted the biggest worry facing banks, even if their regulatory protections

Capitalism in America: A History

by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan · 15 Oct 2018 · 585pp · 151,239 words

inspiration for a growing number of imitators across America and indeed the world: Silicon Desert (Utah and Arizona), Silicon Alley (New York), Silicon Hills (Austin), Silicon Roundabout (London). Stanford University was particularly aggressive in building up its engineering and computer departments, and in turning its ideas into businesses. Frederick Terman, who was