News

• Red tape is seen as the top barrier to entrepreneurship in the UK (City AM on YouGov survey by Kleinwort Hambros)
• Taylor Review: Deliveroo and other gig economy firms should grant extra worker protections (Tech City News on Taylor Review)
• Entrepreneurial spirit is flourishing as small businesses drive job creation (Fresh Business Thinking on nPower and Capital Economics research)
• UK small businesses propped up by £1.6bn in unpaid employee overtime (City AM on Paymentsense survey)
• London is third best global city for business (Economia covers 20,000-strong 26-country Ipsos Mori survey)
• Government tweaks Making Tax Digital to the benefit of 3m small businesses (Real Business)

Opinion

• Taylor Review
  • Pragmatism must prevail (Brhmie Balaram, senior researcher, RSA)
  • The Taylor Review overlooks the big issue - clarifying what self-employment is (Andy Chamberlain, deputy director of policy, IPSE)
  • Regulating the gig economy will hurt workers and consumers (Ryan Bourne, R Evan Scharf chair for the public understanding of economics, Cato Institute)
  • Has employers' National Insurance had its day? (Colin Ben-Nathan, partner, KPMG and chair of employment taxes sub-committee, Chartered Institute of Taxation)
• Research: Writing a business plan makes your startup more likely to succeed (Francis Green, chair in entrepreneurship, University of Edinburgh Business School and Christian Hopp, chair in technology entrepreneurship, RWTH Aachen University)
• Refugees are helping others in their situation as social entrepreneurs (Jarrod Ormiston, assistant professor in social entrepreneurship, Maastricht University)
• Capitalism the Apple way vs capitalism the Google way (Mihir A Desai, professor of finance, Harvard Business School and professor of law, Harvard Law School)

Features

• Independent: Jawbone collapse a case of 'death by overfunding' in Silicon Valley
• Guardian: Sexual harassment: 'If I worked for somebody else, I'd never put myself through this'
• Elite Business: Remaining together: how London's tech hub can maintain ties with the continent

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