Reply to: 2% sounds like a bargain!

[NigelJK]

So to sum up why there are few to no worthwhile UK tech companies: the government doesn't do enough to support domestic industry and people get paid too much?

Nope, UK Govt. should start backing those businesses when they want to enforce their (costly) Patents, in any Country that has signed said agreement. Caveat Emptor any countries that aren't.

[seanraaron]

So to sum up why there are few to no worthwhile UK tech companies: the government doesn't do enough to support domestic industry and people get paid too much?

Seems about right to me. Maybe devaluing the £ is part of a grand secret scheme to bring manufacturing back to Britain?

[NigelJK]

Would this be the same UK Govt. that hung him out to dry when Hoover infringed his Patents, Copywrites and Innovations Treaty then? And left him to find his own private case all the way to the US Supreme court, with no diplomatic help?

[darmstadt]

Nope Dyson was shown the profit figures between keeping manufacturing in UK versus moving offshore, Dyson took the money for which he should have lost his knighthood

I was under the impression that he wanted to build his factory where he wasn't allowed to build it, some permissions or something, so in a fit of pique (and because it was cheaper) he buggered off to Malaysia whereas I'm pretty sure that he could have moved his factory to the North of England and got some grants as well...

[VectraMan]

No, Germans keep manufacturing to high standards. Have a read up on the Fraunhofer Society; very interesting.

I thought they were more in the bullying people for patent royalties business.

If you've ever listened to an MP3 you probably owe them money.

[LondonManc]

Dyson offshored manufacturing because British workers are tulipe then?

No, Germans keep manufacturing to high standards. Have a read up on the Fraunhofer Society; very interesting.

[vetran]

Nope Dyson was shown the profit figures between keeping manufacturing in UK versus moving offshore, Dyson took the money for which he should have lost his knighthood

why do other knights cut off their noses to spite their faces?

[Troll]

Dyson offshored manufacturing because British workers are tulipe then?

Nope Dyson was shown the profit figures between keeping manufacturing in UK versus moving offshore, Dyson took the money for which he should have lost his knighthood

[Troll]

Reputation for quality.

New to the Rover Metro?

It was rhetorical

So what's changed from bashing bits of metal to make a Metro and going out of business, to bashing bits of metal and making £2.5 billion

[vetran]

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

they automated heavily and adopted the Japanese attitude to quality.

Machines & organisation can make manufacturing cheap wherever.

[seanraaron]

Reputation for quality.

New to the Rover Metro?

Dyson offshored manufacturing because British workers are tulipe then?

[LondonManc]

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

Reputation for quality.

New to the Rover Metro?

[NigelJK]

We are still making stuff, only once we have it bedded in we put the production lines in where it's best bang for your QA buck.

[The Spartan]

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

As they're able to undercut the other European economies

[Troll]

Not sure if you're aware but only 5% of the profit comes from manufacturing. Plus you don't get the constant union interference pushing up the prices, win-win.

So where does the other 95% come from? As for your second statement, then all manufacturing should be sent abroad so the idle working classes can continue to get benefits and by working classes that also includes IT techies

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff