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News
- Businesses give cautious welcome to government’s Industrial Strategy (Telegraph)
Read and respond to the the Industrial Strategy - Young entrepreneurs’ growth ambitions undeterred by Brexit hostility (London Loves Business covers Albion Ventures’ Albion Growth Report)
- Research: Family firms are more innovative than other companies (HBR summary of meta-analysis of 108 studies from 1981 to 2012)
- Small businesses face self-assessment burden for business rates as the government passes on the red tape (Mail Online)
Opinion
- Industrial Strategy
- The best industrial strategy is not to have one (Tim Worstall, senior fellow, Adam Smith Institute)
- Britain’s new industrial strategy must not drown out the voices of emerging sectors (Jen Rae, head of policy, Nesta)
- Is the UK finally getting serious about industrial strategy? (David Bailey, professor of industry, Aston University)
- Midsize cities are entrepreneurship’s real test (Daniel Isenberg, prof of entrepreneurship practice, Babson College and Vincent Onyemah, assc prof of sales and marketing, Babson College)
- Mark Carney’s fintech critique should be a wake-up call for the sector used to plaudits (James Frayne, director of public opinion, Public First)
- The future is bright if young entrepreneurs achieve their vision (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Is the UK ready for the peer-to-peer lending gold rush? (Christopher Goodfellow, editor, Business Zone)
- Innovation policy: driving equity or driving inequality? (Stephen Roper, director, Enterprise Research Centre and prof of enterprise, Warwick Business School)
- Okay, Silicon Valley can deliver on its promise to save the world now (Aimee Groth and Kira Bindrim, Qz)