Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

Year Introduced: 2018 | National-level

To encourage entrepreneurs to propose more aggressively innovation, within the range of the field provides certain safety and risk control, the chapter would provide clarification of legality of SME…

Year Introduced: 2011 | National-level

The SME Export Marketing Fund offers grants to SMEs allowing them to participate in overseas exhibitions, business missions and to place B2B advertising. The SME Export Marketing Fund will fund up to…

Year Introduced: 2018 | National-level

In Taiwan, there are more than 100 incubation centers. Most of incubation centers are located in University and some of them receive subsidies from government. The model of incubator centers…

Year Introduced: 2018 | National-level

The Sandbox Act allows for "innovative experimentation", involving technological innovation or business model innovation to undertake experimentation. It grants approval for projects for up to a year…

Year Introduced: 2016 | Supra-national

Move from a successful European start-up policy to an equally successful scale-up policy. This initiative addresses three issues: barriers; the shortage of partners and opportunities; and…

Year Introduced: 2021 | National-level

The Parliament adopted amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreigners allowing foreign nationals to obtain the status of e-resident starting January 2021. E-residents will receive…

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The regulatory sandbox is an initative developed by the Financial Conduct Authority which aims to introduce a regulatory sandbox, that is a ‘safe space’ in which businesses can test innovative…

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The startup visa NL allows for non-European ambitious entrepreneurs to start an innovative business in the Netherlands. The temporary residence permit is valid for a year (with plans to raise this to…

Year Introduced: 2019 | National-level

India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development released a guiding framework for higher education institutions. The framework covers Intellectual Property ownership, revenue sharing…

Year Introduced: 2016 | City-level

Foreigners who found a business in the Fukuoka zone are eligible.  To apply, foreign entrepreneurs enter the country on a short-term visitor’s visa and make their way to the city’s ‘Startup…