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The Cyberport Creative Micro Fund

Year Introduced: 2010 | National-level

The Cyberport Creative Micro Fund offers a grant of HK$100,000 (around €11,600) to high potential digital tech startup projects. The grant is given over a six-month time period, over which time…

Taiwan

Transformation of the system of Incubation Centers

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 …

Nigeria

YouWIN!

Year Introduced: 2011 | National-level

Nigeria YouWIN! is a unique youth entrepreneurship initiative which offers 1,200 grants of 10 million Naira each (around €28,000) to young Nigerians with the aim of empowering young Nigerians to…

Argentina

Argentine Sectoral Fund (FONARSEC)

Year Introduced: 2009 | National-level

Creates a direct linkage between the academic and productive sectors by sponsoring internship and training programs and funding technological development in target areas.

Taiwan

Taiwan Entrepreneur Visa

Year Introduced: 2015 | 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…

Taiwan

The new product and service of social innovation Purchase Reward Program

Year Introduced: 2017 | 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…

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (EYE)

Year Introduced: 2009 | National-level

The program provides opportunities to aspiring or newly established entrepreneurs to go abroad within Europe to develop their entrepreneurial competences in running a small business with an…

Taiwan

Act on Financial Technology Innovations and Experiments

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…

Taiwan

Social Innovation Lab

Year Introduced: 2017 | 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…

Lithuania

e-Residency Programme

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…

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