What is needed above all, agree many in Silicon Roundabout, is simply more success stories.
London too will help to jumpstart innovation again in Europe as Silicon Roundabout becomes a reality.
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Many of these companies were clustered in an area known as Silicon Roundabout and included Last.
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It is true that Silicon Roundabout's plucky businesses probably could not have struck such deals with foreign behemoths on their own.
This investment has produced the booming Silicon Roundabout, attracting hundreds of start-ups.
David Cameron and Boris Johnson have unveiled plans to transform Silicon Roundabout - or rather Tech City as the government likes to call it.
Google is to set up an investor hub, leasing a seven-storey building just off Silicon Roundabout - or Old Street as it used to be known.
London is one of those places getting in on the action with Silicon Roundabout, and even a China connection as entrepreneurs aim to tap faster growth.
As other countries struggle with fiscal penury and the need to find new sources of growth, the government's approach to Silicon Roundabout could become a model to emulate.
Meanwhile another member of the European venture capital establishment, Index Ventures, is finally setting up offices nearby, in the start-up hub known as the Silicon Roundabout (photo above).
It is a place that is still known to many as Silicon Roundabout but two years ago the government dubbed the stretch of London inhabited by small technology firms around the Old Street roundabout Tech City.
And, from existing businesses like the thriving games firm Moshi Monsters to new ones like Housebites, which promises to reinvent the takeaway, there are already examples of enterprise flowering in the noisy streets around Silicon Roundabout.
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