Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

Year Introduced: 2010 | National-level

Allows innovative early stage entrepreneurs from all over the world to access equity free funding through three programs of investment: The S Factory, Seed and Scale. Each program gives funding (15K,…

Year Introduced: 2017 | Sub-national

This initiative seeks to help the startups minimize the bureaucracy associated with the initiation of startup operations. iStart uses a three-pronged strategy to help startups: Develop…

Year Introduced: 2018 | Sub-national

Innovative financial services and products are often accompanied by high uncertainty, and often unclear compliance costs and regulatory responsibilities due to their novel approaches. Regulatory…

Year Introduced: 1980 | National-level

The SR&ED tax incentives program has two main components:  The income tax deduction which allows immediate expensing of all allowable expenditures.   The investment tax…

Year Introduced: 2000 | National-level

The EMI scheme is a government-backed tax advantageous share options scheme which allows companies to reward employees with equity in a highly tax efficient way. Eligible companies are able to grant…

Year Introduced: 2016 | National-level

By leveraging this government partnership, Kyrgyzstan’s young startup sector will raise awareness among key communities of the positive effects of entrepreneurial activity, specifically in the…

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The French government decided to offer refinancing and liquidity measures worth $4.3 billion (€4 billion) in total. 1. Financing bridges between two fund-raising rounds: Startups that…

Year Introduced: | National-level

The Academic Startup Competition (ACS) offers selected academic startups the chance to showcase their business projects to an audience of international investors and businesses. Successful applicants…

Year Introduced: 2002 | National-level

The Torres Quevedo Program is designed to fund companies, technology centers, business associations, and science and technology parks to hire researchers with a doctorate degree for their R&D…

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The Personal Income Tax Law was amended to exempt employee stock options from payroll taxes and also cover options by limited liability companies. As a result recipients will pay just Capital Gains…