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Netherlands

TechLeap.NL

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The TechLeap.NL initiative includes a wide range of actions involving different actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and intervening at different stages of the entrepreneurship process, from…

Netherlands

The Ambitious Entrepreneurship Action Plan

Year Introduced: 2014 | National-level

The key activities under the plan include offering early-stage finance, strengthening the international position of Dutch startups, attracting foreign startups to the Netherlands, granting temporary…

France

Liquidity Support for French Startups

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The French government decided to offer refinancing and liquidity measures worth $4.3 billion (€4 billion) in total. 1. Financing bridges between two fund-raising rounds: Startups that…

Spain

The Break Fellowship

Year Introduced: 2022 | National-level

The Break is a hybrid program that mixes online training with a 28-day retreat in Spain. The fellowship is worth €7,000 and each version of the program will have 280 participants split into 2 cohorts…

Australia

Indigenous Business Australia

Year Introduced: | National-level

Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) works by providing a range of support services and financial products to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. They currently run a range of initiatives…

United Kingdom

The Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Year Introduced: 2000 | National-level

SIP is a tax-advantaged, all-employee plan that allows companies to award equity to employees. It operates through four key elements: free shares, partnership shares, matching shares, and dividend…

Australia

Boosting Female Founders Initiative (BFF)

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The program provides targeted support on a co-contribution basis to female founders of startup businesses (startups) to scale their businesses into domestic and global markets. Grants range between…

United States

START-UP NY

Year Introduced: 2014 | Sub-national

The main features of the START-UP NY program include tax-based incentives and academic partnerships to help new and expanding businesses. The program offers tax-free status for ten years to eligible…

Austria

Austrian Startup Nation strategy

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The startup nation strategy defines necessary actions in different policy areas, which need to be taken in order to turn Austria into Europe’s leading startuphotspot. It therefore covers 40…

European Innovation Council (EIC)

Year Introduced: 2019 | Supra-national

The EIC provides several funding mechanisms for startups, SMEs and researchers to utilise in the process of bringing their innovations to market. They include: EIC Pathfinder The EIC Pathfinder…

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Atlas is a compendium of public sector policies and programs that serves as a tool for policymakers, advisors and opinion leaders to learn about previously implemented policy models, articulated entrepreneurship strategies and/or designs of public-sector-supported programs.

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