As the worlds first industrialized country, Britain led the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century with advanced science and technology and talents. Now, Britain still maintained higher level of the proportion of all kinds of technical personnel and professional personnel, the traditional position of basic science and the humanities is still strong, in biology, medicine, information, financial talent, education and other fields.
East London tech city is the hub of technology, digital and creative industries in east London. Originally from silicon roundabout, it is called "mini silicon valley" and is a relatively small, high-density tech industrial park. There only 30 enterprises of science and technology in 2008, to January, 2010, 85 science and technology innovation enterprises, in 2010 the government issued a plan to support the development of "silicon roundabout", will be built in east London, including the Olympic park, high-tech industry center, named "east London city science and technology". The government has invested 400 million pounds to support the development of science and technology cities, develop preferential policies and ensure that some of the new buildings are used as hatchery. Big companies like cisco, Intel, amazon, Twitter, qualcomm, Facebook and Google have also started to move in, and financial institutions such as barclays have relaunched special financing services for start-ups. In 2011 alone, more than 200 tech companies set their headquarters in tech. Since 2011, more than 1,600 companies have entered the tech city of east London. The east London tech city has become the fastest growing technology hub in Europe.