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- News
- Red tape is seen as the top barrier to entrepreneurship in the UK (City AM on YouGov survey by Kleinwort Hambros)
- Taylor Review: Deliveroo and other gig economy firms should grant extra worker protections (Tech City News on Taylor Review)
- Entrepreneurial spirit is flourishing as small businesses drive job creation(Fresh Business Thinking on nPower and Capital Economics research)
- UK small businesses propped up by £1.6bn in unpaid employee overtime(City AM on Paymentsense survey)
- London is third best global city for business (Economia covers 20,000-strong 26-country Ipsos Mori survey)
- Government tweaks Making Tax Digital to the benefit of 3m small businesses (Real Business)
Opinion
- Taylor Review
- Pragmatism must prevail (Brhmie Balaram, senior researcher, RSA)
- The Taylor Review overlooks the big issue – clarifying what self-employment is (Andy Chamberlain, deputy director of policy, IPSE)
- Regulating the gig economy will hurt workers and consumers (Ryan Bourne, R Evan Scharf chair for the public understanding of economics, Cato Institute)
- Has employers’ National Insurance had its day? (Colin Ben-Nathan, partner, KPMG and chair of employment taxes sub-committee, Chartered Institute of Taxation)
- Research: Writing a business plan makes your startup more likely to succeed (Francis Green, chair in entrepreneurship, University of Edinburgh Business School and Christian Hopp, chair in technology entrepreneurship, RWTH Aachen University)
- Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs(Jarrod Ormiston, assistant professor in social entrepreneurship, Maastricht University)
- Capitalism the Apple way vs capitalism the Google way (Mihir A Desai, professor of finance, Harvard Business School and professor of law, Harvard Law School)
Features