The week in entrepreneurship

Your weekly summary of entrepreneurship news, comment, and features. Sent by the Centre for Entrepreneurs (part of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation). Sign up here. Read the original newsletter here.

• The top 100: Britain’s fastest growing businesses (SyndicateRoom and Beauhurst research)
• Female tech entrepreneurs are given less space to fail (FT covers Atomico research)
• Britain’s high street crisis claims 93,000 jobs in a year (This Is Money covers BRC analysis)
• Small business to receive boost from BAE pension fund (FT)
• Cost of collecting late payments rockets (LondonLovesBusiness covers Bacs research)

Opinion

• Today, we are helping to ensure that business is a force for good (James Wates, chair, coalition group on corporate governance for large private companies)

Related: Private firms should embrace this new chapter of governance (Charlotte Valeur, chair, Institute of Directors)

• The case for employing ex-offenders (Tom Idle, editor-in-chief, Narrative Matters)
• Why an attack on big tech could damage small startups (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)
• What if Sports Direct’s Mike Ashley can turn around the high street when no-one else is trying? (James Moore, chief business commentator, Independent)
• Fresh thinking is needed to fix Britain’s productivity problem (Guy Opperman MP, parliamentary under-secretary of state, Department for Work and Pensions)