News
- New productivity institute part of £37m investment to boost UK wage growth and living standards (gov.uk)
- Future Fund publishes diversity data of companies receiving convertible loan agreements (British Business Bank)
- UK businesses grow at fastest rate in seven years as economy reopens (CityAM)
- Government being urged to change rules on business support grants before schemes are closed at the end of the week (Daily Mail)
- UK fintech founders want greater support from government and regulators (Sifted covers Digital Finance Forum survey)
- Half of businesses fear staff at risk of pandemic burnout (CityAM)
Opinion
- Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it (UC Berkeley SkyDeck Sprinig 2020 cohort)
- Britain’s business schools are joining the Covid-19 recovery battle but what role will they play? (Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
- This A levels and GCSEs exams crisis exposes government’s technology problem (Daniel Korski, co-founder, PUBLIC)
- Startups are sitting on a mental health powder keg (secret columnist, Sifted)
- Diversity and entrepreneurial activity – changing fortunes? (Richard Roberts, professorial research fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship)
- Why do European companies buy so few startups? (Maija Palmer, innovation editor, Sifted)
- The UK has £10bn skills gap, so investors must back the ‘edtech’ boom (Youri Doeleman, partner, Antler)
Features
- Stanford Social Innovation Review: The B Corp movement goes big