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News
- Dyson launches new university to bridge engineering skills gap (Guardian)
- Duke of York crowns water-saving startup as winner of Pitch@Palace 6.0 (Startups.co.uk)
- 17m of us are now part of the sharing economy – but could be uninsured for it (CityAM)
- Shops that shun technology risk losing consumer confidence (Fresh Business Thinking)
- Businesses along London Underground Night Tubes have experienced a near 20% boost since its introduction (CityAM)
Opinion
- Why prosperity is about more than just money (Ian Birrell, contributing editor, Mail on Sunday)
- Government should incentivise business to act responsibly. Here’s how (Mark Florman, co-founder, B-Corps UK, Centre for Social Justice, and the Early Intervention Foundation)
- Uber in Pakistan: A lesson in the flaws of the sharing economy (Juvaria Jafri, doctoral researcher, international political economy, City University London)
- Why Airbnb is welcome in some cities and not in others (Pinar Ozcan, prof of strategy, Warwick Business School)
- Uber ruling: The government must ensure more rights for the self-employed (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Uber ruling: An existential threat to the UK’s sharing economy (Iain Murray, vice president of strategy, Competitive Enterprise Institute)
- The Uber ruling reminds us that sometimes tax does have to be taxing (Benedict Dellot, associate director, RSA)