Britain’s tech sector faces a “triple whammy” hit to its workforce without government action, according to new reports. Firstly, from a critical fall-off in STEM skills in its own population due to lack of funding; secondly, from visa restrictions on the availability...

The UK digital technology sector is emerging as a global force. A record £6.7bn was invested in UK tech firms in 2016, more than any other European country. In contrast, the automotive sector received £1.66bn in investment. This record boom means the sector already...

Britain’s digital tech sector faces a critical shortage of talent unless the government changes immigration rules, says a new report to be published on Tuesday. The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), a policy group representing tech start-ups, warns that...

This week, the Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, launched the long-awaited Digital Strategy. This is an important Strategy and cannot be seen in isolation from the wider aims of the Government to spread...

Following trips to Brighton, Cardiff and Newcastle, next stop was Liverpool… to hear first-hand from startups on the ground.. Debbie Edwards is a founder on a mission: “to create a world where the skills, career choices and life aspirations of girls and women are...

When I joined Coadec as the new executive director, my main priority was to build our UK-wide community of tech startups, across every city and region of the country. Just as I meet startups face-to-face in London, I strongly believe there’s only one way to understand...

Home secretary Amber Rudd provoked outrage this week for suggesting that companies should list the number of foreign workers they employ. For many in the business community, it hit a raw nerve at a sensitive time. EU nationals that call the UK home and have set up...

Following Greg Clark’s speech yesterday at the IOD, a few thoughts on creating a forward-looking Industrial Strategy fit for a digital age: I have seen the future and Britain is not part of it.’ (George Osborne, 2006, Silicon Valley) Ten years after George Osborne...

A few days before the UK voted to leave the EU, I wrote a welcome blog as the incoming Executive Director of Coadec. On reflection and with the beauty of hindsight, I should have written a very different blog. But then it has been a truly extraordinary few weeks. The...