Blog - The Entrepreneurs Network

We’re often asked what entrepreneurs in our network think about the country. The truth is, it’s been hard to give a precise answer. Until now. This week we released two papers, drawing on our most recent Entrepreneurs Survey with Public First, with Cool Britannia re...

While Andy Burnham’s call for Fifa President Gianni Infantino to lose his job (not content with one deposition in July) will grab the headlines, the more consequential news this week was yesterday’s announcement that

🥼 Mann Virdee, Head of Science and Technology

Graphene was first isolated in 2004 in a lab at the University of Manchester, work that won Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov the Nobel Prize in Physics. But within a decade, more than 7,500 graphene patents had been filed worldwide — only about 50 of them from the UK. By contrast, more than 2,20...

Andy Burnham has delivered two big surprises so far: his choice of Chancellor and the scrapping of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

In hindsight, John Healey shouldn’t have been such an outside bet, having served as PPS to Gordon Brown at the Treasury (1999–2001), successively Adult Skills Minister, Treasury Minister, Local Government Minist...

Britain’s competition policy framework is changing. Earlier this year, the Government made a series of proposals for altering how the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) operates. A public consultation on those proposals closed last month, ...