UK - Cambridge Cluster data research

Library House, the high-growth private company research house, in association with Wilmer Hale and BDO Stoy Hayward, has announced the publication of the 2006 Cambridge Cluster Report – “The Supercluster Question”. The third report produced by Library House in a sequence on the Cluster, confirms that Cambridge-based technology companies have weathered the downturn in investment better than the UK as a whole and the rest of Europe and, since the last report, has experienced a number of strong exits, totalling more than £1bn, and producing healthy returns for investors. At the same time, the report identifies concerns that the growth of the Cluster has stalled. Rather than simply accepting this as a consequence of the lack of infrastructure investment and development, the report envisions an exciting future for the Cambridge Cluster as part of a larger, linked area of innovation incorporating London, Oxford and parts of the Thames Valley. This combined area receives over half of the venture capital funding in the UK. This visionary concept backed by far-sighted infrastructure development could lead to creation of the world’s first Supercluster.