Three Big Ideas is our weekly roundup of ideas (and our takes on them) in entrepreneurship, innovation, science and technology, handpicked by the team.
In this week, a guest entry from Shivani H Menon suggests how to make VAT less damaging to growth, Eamonn Ives shoots down a proposal to tax frequent flyers, and Anastasia Bektrimirova discusses what role the United Kingdom can play in taking progress studies from rhetoric to reality.