News

• Small business minister handed role of 'scale-up champion' in Industrial Strategy (Sky News)
• Industrial Strategy should not prop up failing industries, urge business groups (Guardian)
• Business rates are biggest reason international retailers are shunning UK (Telegraph)
• Coffee shops on the march as pubs decline, town centre data shows (BBC)
• US loosens international entrepreneur (visa) rule (GeekWire)

Opinion

• Trump has to make startup America great again (Gillian Tett, FT)
• Donald Trump's business meddling: Crony capitalism to a Tea (Ryan Bourne, head of public policy, IEA) 
• There's a time and place for entrepreneurs to expect government support (Hugo Burge, CEO, Momondo Group)
• Business can make our high streets beautiful again (Dominic Nutt, interim director of comms, British Property Federation)
• Can the gig economy survive the British worker? (Francois Badenhorst, deputy editor, Business Zone)
• Can entrepreneurship revive the troubled PhD? (Ainsley O'Connell, Fast Company)

Features

• Techcrunch: Brazil - a look into Latin America's largest startup ecosystem
• Fast Company: Indiegogo wants to reclaim its momentum with a renewed focus on entrepreneurs
• Standard: Javad Marandi - from Iranian immigrant to Soho House investor