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Armenia

Repatriation and Integration Center

Year Introduced: 2023 | National-level

The Repatriation and Integration Center operates through an individualized case management model where each repatriate or repatriate family, including diaspora entrepreneurs relocating businesses or…

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Diaspora Skills Database

Year Introduced: 2025 | National-level

The Diaspora Skills Database is an online registration and matching platform hosted at zimskills.gov.zw/skillshub/public, managed directly by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Skills Audit and Development.…

Rwanda

Talent Bridge – Rwanda Diaspora Skill Exchange Network

Year Introduced: | National-level

Talent Bridge operates as a skills exchange network rather than a grant or investment fund. It describes its mission as "connecting skills across borders for the betterment of Rwanda" and positions…

Pakistan

Pakistan Business Investor Visa Program

Year Introduced: 2023 | National-level

The “Business Investor Visa Program” is not a single statute but a bundle of investor‑class visa categories introduced through Pakistan’s Visa Policy 2023–24 and implemented by the Ministry of…

Ethiopia

The Startup Proclamation

Year Introduced: 2025 | National-level

The Startup Proclamation operates through multi-layered mechanisms combining designation frameworks, financial incentives, regulatory sandboxes, and institutional support structures.Startup…

Serbia

IP Box Regime

Year Introduced: 2019 | National-level

The IP Box regime operates through a structured mechanism combining eligibility criteria, income calculation, tax benefit application, and compliance procedures aligned with OECD standards.Eligible…

Albania

National Startup and Innovation Program

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The National Startup and Innovation Program operates through multiple coordinated mechanisms combining policy development with direct support services:Legal and Policy Framework:The program is…

United States

San Francisco's Living Innovation Zones (LIZ)

Year Introduced: 2013 | City-level

The Living Innovation Zone (LIZ) program aims to enhance the public realm with innovation, simplify the permitting process for projects in public space and support innovators by providing real-world…

United States

Bipartisan Entrepreneurship Caucus

Year Introduced: 2019 | National-level

The Bipartisan Entrepreneurship Caucus operates as an informal bipartisan forum within Congress's legislative structure, functioning through multiple mechanisms to advance entrepreneurship policy:…

United States

Accelerate St. Louis

Year Introduced: 2013 | City-level

Accelerate St. Louis operates as an entrepreneurship coalition providing multiple coordinated mechanisms to support startups at different development stages and facilitate connections across the…

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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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