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News
- Liv Garfield wins Veuve Clicquot business women of the year title(Telegraph)
- Deliveroo pledges to give their riders all over the world free accident insurance (CityAM)
- Business confidence at two-year high (Economia covers ICAEW’s Business Confidence Monitor)
- Growth in self-employment risks undermining the state pension(Telegraph covers Aegon report)
- Half of the UK’s small businesses are operating in the red (CityAM covers Xero Small Business Insights)
Opinion
- We should celebrate the success of the self-made rich (Christian May, editor, CityAM)
- SMEs are losing out in the innovation race (Prof Stephen Roper, director, Enterprise Research Centre)
- Carillion: the lessons for business and government (Edwin Morgan, director of policy, Institute of Directors)
- A special relationship with Silicon Valley can help to cure London tech’s Brexit blues (James Klein, partner, Penningtons Manches)
- Want to prove your business is fair? Audit your algorithm (Jessi Hempel, senior writer, Wired)
- Your Spotify history could help predict what’s going on with the economy(Kim Kaivanto, lecturer, Lancaster University and Peng Zhang, lecturer, Guizhou Minzu University)
- Why entrepreneurship programmes for engineers fail (Tobin Turner, assc prof, Presbyterian College and Peter Gianiodis, assc prof, Duquesne University)
Features
- BBC: Jim Ratcliffe: Turning cast-offs into gold (feature on the UK’s richest man according to the 2018 Sunday Times Rich List)
- TheNextWeb: Thinking of investing in an ICO? Read this first
- Government Digital Service: How we’ve made things simpler for suppliers on G-Cloud 10