Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

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: 2017 | National-level

The "START" competition offers total prize money of AED 1,000,000 million on offer for future UAE entrepreneurs. "START" aims to assist unemployed Emiratis start their own businesses and thereby…

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 | National-level

The program include the following key policies and actions include (1) The entrepreneurial university program to transform universities across the country to become entrepreneurial universities. The…

Year Introduced: 2017 | National-level

The tax shelter is a tax credit (a reduction of the investor’s Belgian personal income tax) for investors that amounts to either 45% of the invested amount, in case of an equity investment in a…

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The CodePact initiative worked by providing programming education to children across the Netherlands. It collaborates with schools, educational institutions, and tech companies to design and…

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: 2014 | National-level

The Enterprise Support Scheme (ESS) provides grants of up to HK$10 million (around €1.2 million) for businesses of all sizes to invest in research and development (R&D) projects. Grants are given…

Year Introduced: 2017 | National-level

China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) set up a fintech committee to enhance the research, planning and coordination of work on financial technology.

Year Introduced: 2012 | National-level

The Dedicated Fund on Branding, Upgrading and Domestics Sales – Enterprise Support Programme (BUD) provides financial support to Hong Kong SMEs supporting them in undertaking projects to…