Jeremy Hunt has talked up Britain’s prospects of turning into the “world’s subsequent Silicon Valley” in a summit with inventive industries leaders.

The Chancellor has stated the Prime Minister’s ambition for the UK to turn out to be a “science and expertise superpower” is vital to the nation’s future.

Talking at a Treasury Join occasion in a sequence of presidency enterprise conferences, Hunt advised inventive business bosses “the largest alternative for the UK going ahead is to be the world’s subsequent Silicon Valley”.

“Now we have the elements to do one thing outstanding,” he stated.

‘Distinctive mixture’

“We don’t simply have the creativity, the entrepreneurs, the wonderful companies, however we’ve the world’s second largest monetary sector to assist these companies develop and we’ve one of many world’s most revered increased training sector’s to offer the analysis and improvement heft to sit down behind it,” he continued.

“It’s a singular mixture, it’s the mixture Silicon Valley itself had. However there aren’t very many different locations on the earth which have that mixture.”

And Hunt highlighted the necessity for inventive industries on the forefront of tech improvement, saying: “Expertise wants creativity and creativity wants expertise.

“All of your companies have been fully reworked by tech during the last decade however really the tech business wants the creativity that’s the start line of all of your companies.”

‘Not there but’

Nonetheless, he careworn that the UK was nonetheless a way off attaining tech superpower standing.

“We aren’t there by a really great distance however within the final 10 years we’ve turn out to be Europe’s largest tech centre, with the third largest sector on the earth after the US and China,” he stated. “[We’ve become] Europe’s largest life sciences sector, Europe’s second largest renewable sector and largest in the case of offshore wind.”

His feedback come after Rishi Sunak and science, innovation and expertise secretary Michelle Donelan unveiled the Science and Expertise Framework in March.

Ministers need to cement the UK as a tech superpower by 2030 and have pledged £370m to spice up funding in innovation, carry international expertise to the UK and fund cutting-edge AI analysis.