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: 2015 | National-level

To be eligible for Canada's Start-up Visa Program, an entrepreneur must meet the following criteria:  A qualifying business: The entrepreneur must have a business that has the potential to…

Year Introduced: 2015 | 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…

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…

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: 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…

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.

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…

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…