英国政府决策者表示想要培养科技企业与谷歌或Facebook等美国硅谷的科技巨头竞争。
周三，英国政府宣布科技公司将在该国投资近23亿英镑（30亿美元），预计将创造约1600个岗位。这笔资金的大部分是来自云计算公司Salesforce，此计划是在英国首相特里莎·梅（Theresa May）主持的科技圆桌会议上公布的。
英国数字化、文化、新闻与体育部长马特·汉考克（Matt Hancock）在会后向CNBC表示，英国科技界行业的雄心很大。
汉考克在周三向CNBC的Steve Sedgwick表示：“在圆桌会议上，我们从企业家那里听到的是他们对英国持乐观态度，他们认为在英国脱欧之后，英国也可以孵化出能与中国和美国大型科技公司比肩的大规模跨国公司，因为我们现在已经有了这一领域的生态系统。”
由于伦敦有很多科技公司在这一地区开展业务，老街环岛（Old Street Roundabout）被称为“硅环岛（Silicon Roundabout）”。
尽管英国退欧存在不确定性，但伦敦仍是欧洲最大的科技投资中心。根据英国伦敦的官方宣传机构London & Partners，2017年，英国科技企业获得的投资几乎是德国的四倍以上，且超过瑞典、法国和意大利的总和。目前，英国数字技术经济中约有210万人就业。
汉考克强调芯片制造商ARM和物流公司Ocado等企业的诞生和成长，这些企业让英国能够吸引科技人才。
汉考克表示：“几年前，ARM以240亿英镑被日本软银收购，这是向英国科技生态系统注入了240亿英镑的资金。Ocado是一家市值约100亿的公司，是亚马逊全球最大竞争对手之一。”
汉考克补充道，目前英国拥有的独角兽公司（即估值超过10亿美元的私人控股的初创公司）超过了欧洲其他任何国家。
他说：“我认为现在是探索该科技生态系统深度的时候了，事实上，英国有很多不同的科技产业。例如，金融科技就发展得很好，因为我们既有国际金融中心，还有很好的科技氛围。”
The U.K.'s top policymakers have said they want to produce tech companies to rival Silicon Valley giants such as Google or Facebook.
On Wednesday, the government announced that technology firms are to invest nearly £2.3 billion ($3 billion) into the country, creating an estimated 1,600 new jobs. The cash injection, the bulk of which came from cloud computing company Salesforce, was unveiled to coincide with a tech roundtable event, hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May.
Speaking after the event, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matt Hancock told CNBC there is huge ambition for the U.K. tech scene.
"One of the things we were hearing at the roundtable from the entrepreneurs was optimism that the U.K., post-Brexit, can be a home for global companies of a scale that we see coming out of China and the U.S. because we've got the eco-system," he told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick Wednesday.
London remains Europe's top hub for tech investment despite Brexit uncertainty, and in 2017 U.K. tech firms took in almost four times more funding than Germany, and more than Sweden, France and Italy combined, according to London & Partners, the Mayor of London's official promotional agency. Some 2.1 million people are now employed in the country's digital tech economy.
Hancock highlighted the creation and growth of companies such as chipmaker ARM and logistics company Ocado that was allowing the U.K. to attract tech talent.
"A couple of years ago ARM sold for £24 billion. That was injection of £24 billion into the ecosystem. Ocado is a 10 billion company — it is the biggest competitor in the world to Amazon in that particular space," the minister claimed.
Hancock added that the U.K. now has far more unicorns (privately held start-up companies valued at over $1 billion) than any other country in Europe.
"I think it is down to the depth of the ecosystem and the fact that we have many different industries here in the U.K. For example, fintech (financial technology) has done well, because we have both the international financial center of the world and a great tech scene literally side-by-side," the minister said.
Source: CNBC | Translated by Vanessa Chen
周三，英国政府宣布科技公司将在该国投资近23亿英镑（30亿美元），预计将创造约1600个岗位。这笔资金的大部分是来自云计算公司Salesforce，此计划是在英国首相特里莎·梅（Theresa May）主持的科技圆桌会议上公布的。
英国数字化、文化、新闻与体育部长马特·汉考克（Matt Hancock）在会后向CNBC表示，英国科技界行业的雄心很大。
汉考克在周三向CNBC的Steve Sedgwick表示：“在圆桌会议上，我们从企业家那里听到的是他们对英国持乐观态度，他们认为在英国脱欧之后，英国也可以孵化出能与中国和美国大型科技公司比肩的大规模跨国公司，因为我们现在已经有了这一领域的生态系统。”
由于伦敦有很多科技公司在这一地区开展业务，老街环岛（Old Street Roundabout）被称为“硅环岛（Silicon Roundabout）”。
尽管英国退欧存在不确定性，但伦敦仍是欧洲最大的科技投资中心。根据英国伦敦的官方宣传机构London & Partners，2017年，英国科技企业获得的投资几乎是德国的四倍以上，且超过瑞典、法国和意大利的总和。目前，英国数字技术经济中约有210万人就业。
汉考克强调芯片制造商ARM和物流公司Ocado等企业的诞生和成长，这些企业让英国能够吸引科技人才。
汉考克表示：“几年前，ARM以240亿英镑被日本软银收购，这是向英国科技生态系统注入了240亿英镑的资金。Ocado是一家市值约100亿的公司，是亚马逊全球最大竞争对手之一。”
汉考克补充道，目前英国拥有的独角兽公司（即估值超过10亿美元的私人控股的初创公司）超过了欧洲其他任何国家。
他说：“我认为现在是探索该科技生态系统深度的时候了，事实上，英国有很多不同的科技产业。例如，金融科技就发展得很好，因为我们既有国际金融中心，还有很好的科技氛围。”
The U.K.'s top policymakers have said they want to produce tech companies to rival Silicon Valley giants such as Google or Facebook.
On Wednesday, the government announced that technology firms are to invest nearly £2.3 billion ($3 billion) into the country, creating an estimated 1,600 new jobs. The cash injection, the bulk of which came from cloud computing company Salesforce, was unveiled to coincide with a tech roundtable event, hosted by Prime Minister Theresa May.
Speaking after the event, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matt Hancock told CNBC there is huge ambition for the U.K. tech scene.
"One of the things we were hearing at the roundtable from the entrepreneurs was optimism that the U.K., post-Brexit, can be a home for global companies of a scale that we see coming out of China and the U.S. because we've got the eco-system," he told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick Wednesday.
London remains Europe's top hub for tech investment despite Brexit uncertainty, and in 2017 U.K. tech firms took in almost four times more funding than Germany, and more than Sweden, France and Italy combined, according to London & Partners, the Mayor of London's official promotional agency. Some 2.1 million people are now employed in the country's digital tech economy.
Hancock highlighted the creation and growth of companies such as chipmaker ARM and logistics company Ocado that was allowing the U.K. to attract tech talent.
"A couple of years ago ARM sold for £24 billion. That was injection of £24 billion into the ecosystem. Ocado is a 10 billion company — it is the biggest competitor in the world to Amazon in that particular space," the minister claimed.
Hancock added that the U.K. now has far more unicorns (privately held start-up companies valued at over $1 billion) than any other country in Europe.
"I think it is down to the depth of the ecosystem and the fact that we have many different industries here in the U.K. For example, fintech (financial technology) has done well, because we have both the international financial center of the world and a great tech scene literally side-by-side," the minister said.
Source: CNBC | Translated by Vanessa Chen
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