News

• Entrepreneurs remain positive as home for UK startups (CityAM on IoD 99 polling)
• Bill Gates announces £1bn global clean tech investment fund (Tech City News)
• National Infrastructure Commission: Government 'must take action' on 5g (BBC)
• Government Digital Service faces a brain drain (BBC)
• The UK's first university campus VC has launched its first £2m fund (Elite Business)

Opinion

• Is our obsession with fast growth 'scale-ups' and job creation stifling productivity? (Prof Mark Hart, deputy director and Prof Stephen Roper, director, Enterprise Research Centre)
• Trump won't fix America by talking to tech (David Waywell, writer, The Spine)
• Patience is a virtue: Why patient capital is a growing investment model (Simon Calver, partner, BGF Ventures)
• We must all be exporters now, and help build a more cosmopolitan, outward-looking Britain (Will Butler-Adams, CEO, Brompton Bicycle)
• Entrepreneurs don't need industry experience when there is no industry (Dileep Rao, Forbes contributor and former VC)
• Why entrepreneurs in the developing world need new funding models (Fiona Murray, faculty director, MIT Sloan Legatum Center)
• The UK alternative finance industry is still not transparent enough (Julia Groves, partner, Downing Crowd and former head, UK Crowdfunding Association)
• Why my boss, Walt Disney, was the ultimate business leader (Floyd Norfman - star of recent film 'Floyd Norfman: An animated life')

Features

• BBC 100 Women: From prison to profit (the BBC profiles Startup Now - the prison entrepreneurship programme that underpins our 'Inmates to entrepreneurs' campaign)
• How an entrepreneurial prisoner broke down jail walls (Forbes tells the story of how a prisoner in an Indian prison launched his own entrepreneurship programme) 
• Quirky: A case study in crowdsourcing gone wrong (HBR)
• The fourth industrial revolution: A primer on Artificial Intelligence (David Kelnar, investment director head of research, MMC Ventures)