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Listed companies shouldn’t be excluded from Burnham’s Scale-Up Fund

By: Danny Lopez

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Backing Britain’s future through initiatives like the Scale-Up Fund means backing its public growth companies too, writes Danny Lopez 

In one of his first acts as Prime Minister over the summer, Andy Burnham announced a £1bn Scale-Up Fund for UK science and technology companies. It was undoubtedly a positive move for Britain’s most innovative companies, but it also acknowledged a problem: talent and world class companies are in plentiful supply in this country, but scale-up capital is not.

The challenge we are facing is ensuring great companies, tech and beyond, have access to the investment they need. Without it, British champions struggle to remain in the UK and scale to become global success stories. If our government is serious about driving productivity, creating skilled jobs, strengthening our long-term competitiveness and ultimately growing our economy, it is right that facilitating such investment is at the top of the agenda.

Therefore, plans to establish a British Business Bank-backed investment vehicle supported by some of the country’s largest pension providers........

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