In the age of apps, James Dyson--the world’s most famous vacuum cleaner salesman--has doubled down on building things. n the age of apps, James Dyson--the world’s most famous vacuum cleaner salesman--has doubled down on building things. At his alma mater, London’s Royal College of Art, he recently invested several million pounds to construct the new Dyson Building, an incubator where RCA design and engineering graduates will incubate 40 new products--physical inventions, rather than lines of code powering software and websites.

“Talented young minds want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page. But with the world abuzz with digital, we are losing sight of real engineering,” Dyson tells Co.Design. “Hardware is profitable. Don’t be fooled, Apple’s success as a technology company is built on hardware. The current fixation with digital is misplaced. Long-term it is unlikely to generate jobs, growth, and exports. Instead, we need to encourage more young engineers to commercialize their technologies.”

Chancellor George Osborne vows to make the UK the "technology centre of Europe" as he opens a new east London technology hub, Google Campus.

Google are offering advice and office space to new tech companies.

China’s business & start-up incubators are adopting different models than those popularized from Silicon Valley and other mature, Western ecosystems. The drivers developing a different incubator model are rooted in a different local context, but the successful application of these models can have global implications

Henry Mitchell makes the case for entrepeneurs to start turning their attention to more physical, tangible business and apply their innovative ideas to 'improving what the retail business has to offer consumers'.

Rayhan Omar on how accelerators can be a distraction, and others can be truly worth their while. He poses the question - how many of these are truly seed level accelerators, and how many are just an elaborate filter system for investors?

Quirky is a social product development company. Your product ideas come in, our community works on them, we sell your product worldwide, and 30¢ of every dollar brought in gets distributed amongst you and the product's influencers.

La France pourrait se repositionner sur l’échiquier de l’économie mondiale en s’inspirant du modèle entrepreneurial israélien et des atouts qu’offre la finance participative.

Europe not only has a euro crisis, it also has a growth crisis. That is because of its chronic failure to encourage ambitious entrepreneurs. 

Interesting article on European Start-up culture 

Créer une entreprise est toujours un défi, c’est de la comptabilité, du droit, de la finance, de la gestion, du marketing, et bien d’autres domaines avec lesquels l’entrepreneur n’est pas toujours familier.