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"Europe offers interesting, albeit challenging, opportunities to build global companies outside Silicon Valley" says Eric Archambeau, general partner at Benchmark Capital in London. "People are becoming less risk-adverse and more inclined to leave big companies to start their own business". Similarly, Tim Duffy, the managing director for Europe at Vennworks, believes European universities and research centers offer interesting opportunities. In particular, a number of government research institutes currently under budgetary constraints are keen to commercialize some of their research.
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Europe offers interesting, albeit challenging, opportunities to venture capital firms because, besides the change in people’s attitude towards risks and ventures and the improved business and investment environment, universities and research centers are offering opportunities and government research institutions are keen to commercialize some of their research.
欧洲给风险投资公司提供了既引人注目、又具有挑战性的机会，这是因为，除了人们对风险以及冒险态度上的转变之外，改善了经营和投资环境，大学和研究中心提供投资机会以及政府的研究机构急于将他们的研究成果转变成商品。
词语解释
leave someone to do something
to let someone do or deal with something without offering help or assistance 听任；让，e.g.
1）Infected people are often rejected by their family and friends, leaving them to face this chronic condition alone.得传染病的人常常被他们的家人和朋友遗弃，只得自己去面对这慢性疾病的煎熬。
2）Leave the future to take care of itself. 让未来自然发展吧。
