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News
- Government launches review to help business embrace new technology and boost wages and profits (gov.uk)
- 10 British VCs to start sharing diversity data on all the startups they meet(Forbes)
- Most exporters struggling to find the staff as skills shortage bites(Telegraph covers BCC survey)
- Royal Bank of Scotland pledges £1bn of funds to ‘do more’ for small firms(City AM)
- Uber gives drivers sick pay and parental leave (BBC)
- More SMEs winning government contracts than ever before (London Loves Business features Tussell research)
- Rise in growth among startups (Economia covers Smith & Williamson research on scale-ups)
Opinion
- Theresa May and the government’s business as usual attitude on the UK economy isn’t good enough and must change (Adam Marshall, director general, British Chambers of Commerce)
- The NHS is fantastic but it must be more open to new ideas and technology (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Macron vowed to make France a ‘ Startup Nation.’ Is it getting there? (Liz Alderman, chief european business correspondent, New York Times)
- Britain must reinvent itself as the home of the purpose economy (Michael Hayman, co-founder, Seven Hills)
Features
- Director: Growth secrets of UK unicorns revealed (special report featuring interviews with the founders of Oxford Nanopore Technologies, OakNorth and TransferWise)
- Bill Gates: Five books worth reading this summer