I wrote about this previous in a European context: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/06/yes-europe-does-produce-big-tech.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/20

I wrote about this previous in a European context: http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/06/yes-europe-does-produce-big-tech.html http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2010/06/yes-europe-does-produc... There are plenty of recent tech success stories. European companies pretty much dominate the global telecoms and gambling markets, financial tech companies are fairly evenly split between New York and London. And while we don't dominate, the UK has a disproportionally large market share of the chip design and computer games industry.