The Prime Minister has used a key address to highlight a major new digital innovation project based at Greenwich Council’s Digital Enterprise Greenwich.

The council-run centre is playing host to a first UK ‘hub’ of Cisco Systems new “National Virtual Incubator” aimed at driving innovation and helping new businesses flourish.

It means Cisco – one of the world’s leading technology firms - is heavily investing in technology and IT at a number of ‘hubs’ or ‘nodes’ to make it easier for start-up businesses to communicate electronically and share data with each other.

Cisco officially launched the NVI this week along with Greenwich Council and other founding partners Ravensbourne, JANET (UK) and Birmingham Science Park Aston, home to the other first ‘hub’ alongside Digital Enterprise Greenwich.