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Clive Mayne, Managing Partner at Exetec Consulting writes about how the UK is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to commercialising our technology innovations, and what can be done to change this.

Rightly or wrongly, a perception has emerged, in recent years, whereby entrepreneurs of growth companies in the UK technology sector, believe that seeking and obtaining investment, and the commercialisation of that technology, is getting far more difficult.

The widely held view amongst British industry practitioners, is that in order to seek the necessary funding needed for R&D, production and commercialisation, firms need to be based in the US where funding is readily available from investors who are less risk-averse and more in tune with IT and technological innovation.

To read the full, original article click on this link: Guest blog: Can the UK tech sector keep pace with the rest of the world? - Computer Business Review