The Financial Times asks whether Silicon Fen, in Cambridge, can ever hope to match Silicon Valley, in California.
It says Cambridge needs to learn the knack of turning great ideas into business and improve its infrastructure, for example.
Entrepreneurs fear regional development agencies will try to spread public funds too thinly across the east of England, taking away finance that might otherwise have naturally migrated to Cambridge.
References: Financial Times 16/02/05 page 14
