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News
- Small and medium enterprises lead outstanding British businesses honoured by the Queen (gov.uk publish Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2019 winners)
- Apprenticeship levy makes training harder, say UK small businesses (FT covers FSB survey)
- UK tech startups doing social good are worth £2.3bn and have raised over £1bn in VC funding (Elite Business covers Tech Nation research)
- UK tax system “fundamentally unfair” to SMEs (Economia covers BCC survey)
Opinion
- Regulating the tech giants won’t help Europe’s startups (Kjartan Rist, founding partner, Concentric)
- Businesses of all sizes are complicit in modern slavery and must do more to confront this evil (Iqbal Wahhab, founder, Roast)
- Innovating … into trouble! (Prof Stephen Roper, director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- On startup depression (David Brudö, CEO, Remente)
- The truth about the scooter economy – an insider’s perspective (Mark Suster, managing partner Upfront Ventures)
- The UK government needs to take digital identify seriously (Mike Bracken, former head of UK Government Digital Service)
Features