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Tech Nation is compiled using over 1000 data points, more than 2700 survey respondents from digital businesses across the country, 220 community partners, 61 tech startup case studies and 30 UK tech clusters, making this the most comprehensive study to date on the UK’s tech ecosystem.

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Key national findings included:

???? The UK’s digital tech industry is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the economy and is key to boosting the UK’s wider economy with a contribution of ?97 billion in 2015.

???? The digital tech industry generated a further 85,000?jobs over the past year from 1.56 million in 2014 to 1.64 million in 2015, creating jobs at double the rate of the rest of the economy.

???? Tech investment in the UK reached ?6.8bn in 2016, more than two times higher than any other European country and significantly more than its closest rival, France, which secured ?2.4bn.

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