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Global Entrepreneurship Week
The world’s biggest celebration of entrepreneurship returns this week. The week-long festival of live events taking place across the UK and 162 countries worldwide celebrates entrepreneurship and helps people at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey get the help they need.
News
- Deliveroo riders demand employment rights following in Uber’s footsteps (TechCityNews)
- HRMC VAT fraud proposals “will catch innocent businesses” (Economia)
- How mingle opportunities have made London the most startup-friendly global city (Elite Business)
- RBS to compensate squeezed firms (BBC)
- Ex-Cameron advisor Dan Korski on look-out for backers for a new “GovTech” fund (CityAM)
- Small businesses struggle to secure finance as advice gap emerges (Fresh Business Thinking)
Trump – Commentary
- From Trump Towers to the White House (Stephen Roper, prof of enterprise, Warwick Business School and director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- Trump’s conflicts of interest are without precedent in American presidential history (Drew Harwell, The Washington Post)
- Post election, entrepreneurs say its time to look beyond the Silicon Valley bubble (Kathleen Chaykowski, Forbes)
- Silicon Valley’s calls to secede show how out of touch it is (Jamie Condliffe, associate editor, MIT Technology Review)
Opinion
- Entrepreneurship is key to prison reform – so why doesn’t government get it? (Max Yoshioka, lead researcher, Centre for Entrepreneurs)
- How sociopathic capitalism came to rule the world (John Paul Rollert, adjunct asst prof, Booth School of Business)
- China’s bewildering new cybersecurity law is keeping foreign tech firms out of the country (Josh Horwitz, Asia correspondent, Qz)
- Britain must raise its game on innovation to make a success of Brexit (Tom Thackray, director of innovation, CBI)
- Putting social entrepreneurs at the heart of industrial strategy (Tom Fox, policy lead, UnLtd)
- The new bridge to China heralds the start of a golden age for UK fintech (Eileen Burbidge, partner, Passion Capital and HM Treasury’s special envoy for fintech)
- Our business heroes make the most of the madness (Julian Harris, deputy editor, City AM)
“The reality is that life is never straightforward, and some of the business world’s most successful innovations have come on the back of political strife. Those who dither and whine and procrastinate do not tend to get far. Business is a realm dominated by positive, optimistic free-thinkers”.
Features
- The City AM Awards – results
- The Entrepreneur Wales Awards – results
- Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission has reduced the cost of registering a business by 50% (Qz)
- Platforms vs creators: the battle for the internet economy (Guardian)
- What’s keeping Vietnam’s startups from scaling up? (Anh-Mingh Do, director of comms, Vertex Ventures)