Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

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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Taiwan Entrepreneur Visa

Year Introduced: | National-level

The Taiwan startup ecosystem has been always open to the world. In 2015, the government introduced the specific measure, Taiwan Entrepreneur Visa, to more welcome the innovative…

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Taiwan
Small Business Innovation Research for Entrepreneurs

Year Introduced: | National-level

Through grants and subsidies provided by SBIR, the risks and costs borne by SMEs engaging in innovation and R&D activities will be reduced. The SBIR program encourages SMEs to carry out active…

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Taiwan
Social Innovation Lab

Year Introduced: | National-level

In order to promote social innovation in Taiwan, MOEA started to provide measures related to social innovation from 2014. In the beginning, SMEA encouraged existed social enterprises constituted…

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Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Hong Kong Government's SME Funding Schemes

Year Introduced: | National-level

The SME Loan Guarantee Scheme aims to help SMEs to secure loans by providing them with a guarantee for up to 50 per cent of a loan, to a maximum total guarantee amount of HK$6 million (around €690,…

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Portugal
Lisbon Participatory Budgeting

Year Introduced: | City-level

The Participatory Budgeting (OP) is a form of citizen participation in the governance of the city of Lisbon. Through the OP, citizens have effective power to decide on a portion of the municipal…

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Taiwan
The new product and service of social innovation Purchase Reward Program

Year Introduced: | National-level

In the past few years, hundreds of social enterprises were established and millions of dollars were invested or loaned to social enterprises. Obviously, the concept of social enterprises is gradually…

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Mauritius
Regulatory Sandbox License Mauritius

Year Introduced: | National-level

The Regulatory Sandbox License (RSL) offers the possibility for an investor to conduct a business activity for which there exists no legal framework, or adequate provisions under existing legislation…

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Nigeria
Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) Programme

Year Introduced: | National-level

The YES programme is aimed at equipping young people with the requisite skills and knowledge to be self-employed by starting and managing their own businesses. The programme is comprised of the…

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Hong Kong S.A.R., China
SME Export Marketing Fund (EMF)

Year Introduced: | 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…

The Start-up and Scale-up Initiative

Year Introduced: | Supra-national

The Commission's Start-up and Scale-up Initiative aims to give Europe's innovative entrepreneurs every opportunity to become world leading companies. It pulls together all the possibilities that…