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January 18, 2021Hannah Baker from business-live said that The West Country is fast becoming one of the UK’s most dominant technology clusters outside of London.
The region – stretching from the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall up to Gloucestershire – is now home to tens of thousands of tech firms that turn over billions of pounds between them each year.
Bristol is, arguably, the region’s prime tech hub. The city alone employs 8,000 people in the industry and has some 430 tech firms, including big-name brands such as Nokia, BT, Vodafone, Oracle and Amazon.
But Exeter is another hotspot for tech, with the city growing to become a challenger to Bristol’s position. According to Tech Nation, there was a 47% rise in tech jobs in the city between 2014 and 2018.
