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News
- Landmark review sparks action to boost number of female entrepreneurs(gov.uk publishes Rose Review on female entrepreneurship)
- New plans to help next generation of young entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality (gov.uk announces review of young entrepreneurship, to be conducted by Prince’s Trust)
- Forty percent of ‘AI startups’ in Europe don’t actually use AI (The Verge covers MMC Ventures research)
- Business attacks plan to extend tax rules for self-employed (FT)
- Fresh data reveals the folly of Britain’s apprentice levy (CityAM)
Opinion
- A privacy-focused vision for social networking (Mark Zuckerberg)
- If Kylie Jenner can be an entrepreneurial superstar, so can the rest of Generation Z (Emma Jones, founder, Enterprise Nation)
- By welcoming top talent, Britain can breed a new generation of unicorns(Eamonn Ives, researcher, Centre for Policy Studies)
- Patient pension funds can pump cash into startups (Anthony Hilton, senior commentator, Evening Standard)
- Universities can work with businesses to regenerate left-behind Britain(Joe Marshall, chief executive, National Centre for Universities and Business)
- Is it time for entrepreneurs to ditch the culture of employees working overtime? (Varsha Saraogi, feature writer, Elite Business)
Features
- FT: Special report: Women in business
- Economist: China’s formerly white-hot tech sector is in the doldrums
- Real Business: “If you die rich, you die poor”: Activist entrepreneur Paul Lindley puts his money where his mouth is
- Guardian: The Aldi effect: How one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops