News

• Businesses give cautious welcome to government's Industrial Strategy (Telegraph)
  Read and respond to the the Industrial Strategy
• Young entrepreneurs' growth ambitions undeterred by Brexit hostility (London Loves Business covers Albion Ventures' Albion Growth Report) 
• Research: Family firms are more innovative than other companies (HBR summary of meta-analysis of 108 studies from 1981 to 2012)
• Small businesses face self-assessment burden for business rates as the government passes on the red tape (Mail Online)

Opinion

• Industrial Strategy
  • The best industrial strategy is not to have one (Tim Worstall, senior fellow, Adam Smith Institute)
  • Britain's new industrial strategy must not drown out the voices of emerging sectors (Jen Rae, head of policy, Nesta)
  • Is the UK finally getting serious about industrial strategy? (David Bailey, professor of industry, Aston University)
• Midsize cities are entrepreneurship's real test (Daniel Isenberg, prof of entrepreneurship practice, Babson College and Vincent Onyemah, assc prof of sales and marketing, Babson College)
• Mark Carney's fintech critique should be a wake-up call for the sector used to plaudits (James Frayne, director of public opinion, Public First)
• The future is bright if young entrepreneurs achieve their vision (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
• Is the UK ready for the peer-to-peer lending gold rush? (Christopher Goodfellow, editor, Business Zone)
• Innovation policy: driving equity or driving inequality? (Stephen Roper, director, Enterprise Research Centre and prof of enterprise, Warwick Business School)
• Okay, Silicon Valley can deliver on its promise to save the world now (Aimee Groth and Kira Bindrim, Qz)

Features

• Telegraph: Tech giants in the crosshairs as Davos elite faces up to new global realities
• TechCityNews: Here are the 33 companies joining Tech City UK's Upscale 2017 scheme
• BBC: Box clever - the firms based in shipping containers