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News
- Government sets out digital strategy for UK economy (Economia)
- Industrial Strategy comes under fire from Business Select Committee (CityAM)
- Dyson to open second R&D tech campus in UK (TechCrunch)
- Government offers to pay 90% of costs for SMEs to take on an apprentice (Mail Online)
- Budget: What do businesses want? (BBC)
Opinion
- Taming the new titans of tech (Robert Colville, editor, CapX)
- Why we’re ditching demo days (Ross Baird, founder, Village Capital)
- Five years on, equity crowdfunding has become the new normal (Karen Kerrigan, chief legal officer, Seedrs)
- Don’t demonise capitalism – it’s making the world a better place (Marian L Tupy, editor, Human Progress)
- VCs, startups: stop networking so much (Bradley Tusk, CEO, Tusk Ventures)
- Legislate to innovate: Sustaining the UK as an innovation economy after Brexit (Rebecca Emerson, UK head, Oliver Wyman)
- A better way to fight discrimination in the sharing economy (Jun Li, University of Michigan, Dennis Zhang, Washington University and Ruomeng Cui, Indiana University)
Features
- Business Zone: Being an ethical baby food brand, courgette shortages and last-minute flights to Spain (profile of CFE Fellow Cat Gazzoli of Piccolo)
- CityAM: Here’s how we build P2P firms that actually service the poor
- New Yorker: The not-so-surprising survival of Foursquare
- MIT Tech Review: The startup that’s in charge of the biggest private satellite fleet