The License Raj and Grant Funding

Are unnecessary processes, rules, and general bureaucracy getting in the way of entrepreneurship and innovation?

It's been a theme of two things I’ve written over the past week. For the Sunday Telegraph, I looked at the UK’s growing License Raj and how despite deregulatory rhetoric there’s been little done to reduce the burden on business.

In my piece, I set out seven laws which prove this administration isn’t a deregulating one. You can read it here.

As well as looking at regulation, I also looked at the hoops startups have to jump through to access Innovate UK grant funding.

My post for my email newsletter Notes on Growth looked at Innovate UK’s Smart grants through the lens of a rejected proposal. You can read it here.