Opinion

April 30, 2019

“Tech collaboration is often fundamentally flawed due to a lack of diversity”

Tech hubs and coworking spaces are too heavily targeted at one type of person or startup. Here is how it could be done better.


Angus Horner

5 min read

Photo by Andre Mouton on Unsplash

Collaboration is a universally accepted mantra in today’s modern tech economy. It is much mooted as a catalyst for business growth, with whole industry sub-sectors spawned to facilitate collaboration.

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