France, the start-up nation of tomorrow

In June, Paris played host to the VivaTech exhibition to promote innovation and new technology. Then in July, Station F, the world’s biggest start-up campus, opened in the capital’s thirteenth arrondissement.

Even the new, young president was on hand, expressing his desires for the nation in terms of the start-up mentality: creativity, breaking new ground and agility approaching light-speed.

These are exciting times to be in France. You could say it’s the most exciting period since Lexcelera was founded 31 years ago, in the days before we called every new company a start-up.

With France setting itself up to be the new Silicon Valley of Europe, translation services have to meet new needs, whether for hyper-speed or for integration with different platforms and processes. Above all, human translation and machine translation are becoming mix and match, more of one or more of the other, all depending on what result the content needs to achieve.

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