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News
- Small business minister handed role of ‘scale-up champion’ in Industrial Strategy (Sky News)
- Industrial Strategy should not prop up failing industries, urge business groups (Guardian)
- Business rates are biggest reason international retailers are shunning UK (Telegraph)
- Coffee shops on the march as pubs decline, town centre data shows (BBC)
- US loosens international entrepreneur (visa) rule (GeekWire)
Opinion
- Trump has to make startup America great again (Gillian Tett, FT)
- Donald Trump’s business meddling: Crony capitalism to a Tea (Ryan Bourne, head of public policy, IEA)
- There’s a time and place for entrepreneurs to expect government support (Hugo Burge, CEO, Momondo Group)
- Business can make our high streets beautiful again (Dominic Nutt, interim director of comms, British Property Federation)
- Can the gig economy survive the British worker? (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)
- Can entrepreneurship revive the troubled PhD? (Ainsley O’Connell, Fast Company)