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News
- First full Industrial Strategy for decades will harness technology to overcome ‘grand challenges (Telegraph) Read the Industrial Strategy
- Autumn Budget 2017 at a glance (CityAM summarise all key announcements from the Budget)
- Apprenticeship numbers fall 59% after levy imposed (BBC)
- MPs push for new gig economy laws with rise of Uber and Deliveroo(CityAM)
- Company raises $347k ICO, vanishes (TechCrunch)
- UK to use small firms’ VAT returns to calculate economic growth(Telegraph)
- Britain’s youngest businesses drive sector confidence for 2018 (London Loves Business covers Hitachi’s Business Barometer)
Opinion
- Making the gig economy work for us all (Rachel Maclean, MP for Reddich)
- With help from the industrial strategy, universities can help make our regions grow (Chris Husbands, vice chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University)
- Tech offers a way out of the UK’s education crisis (Naimish Gohil, founder and chief executive, Satchel)
- Why The Apprentice isn’t teaching us how to succeed in the workplace of the future (Mette Anderson, managing partner, Futurice)
Features
- BBC: Meet the world’s youngest self-made billionaire (profile of Stripe co-founder John Collison)
- CityAM: Alex Cheatle can get you a reservation anywhere in the world(profile of Ten Group)
- BBC: The female tech bosses who want zebras not unicorns