{"id":603384,"date":"2025-11-30T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:07:11","slug":"uks-tech-sector-could-be-the-best-in-europe-but-this-timid-budget-wont-help-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603384\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s tech sector could be the best in Europe, but this timid budget won\u2019t help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">In the tidal wave of gloom engulfing our national conversation, there is one ray of light. Britain has the emergent foundations for reproducing what China and the US are doing, and better than anywhere else in Europe. The UK has the world\u2019s third biggest venture capital industry. It has a state-owned development bank, the British Business Bank, as the country\u2019s lead venture investor, an exceptional science base and<a role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/observer.co.uk\/news\/business\/article\/britain-can-become-one-of-the-worlds-top-tech-economies-if-it-takes-the-risks\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Anchor font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _ws-pre-wrap _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _cur-pointer _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-18 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500576 _col-c-orange_6048 _textDecorationColor-c-orange_6048 _td-underline _textDecorationStyle-solid\" style=\"font-weight:var(--f-weight-300)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> two-fifths of Europe\u2019s fast-growing,<\/a> young, venture-backed, high-growth companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the tidal wave of gloom engulfing our national conversation, there is one ray of light. Britain has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,1194,1700,393,4884,1144,619,712,53,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-603384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-rachel-reeves","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115638805798487254","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}