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
The Act for SME and Startup Development: Startup Regulatory Experiments

Year Introduced: | National-level

To encourage entrepreneurs to propose more aggressively innovation, within the range of the field provides certain safety and risk control, the chapter would provide clarification of legality of SME’…

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Netherlands
Dutch Public Procurement Act

Year Introduced: | National-level

The Dutch Public Procurement Act (Nieuwe Aanbestedingswet 2012) requires that, wherever possible, large tenders be split up into several smaller contracts, thereby enabling collective bidding by…

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…

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Taiwan
The One-Stop Startup Hubs

Year Introduced: | National-level

Complementary with the One-Stop Web Portal, the Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA), the administrative agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), set up a one-stop…

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Japan
Startup Loan Program

Year Introduced: | National-level

This program provides loans to a person who starts up a new business based on the examination of the accuracy of its business plan without any requirement for security or guarantor (for a corporation…

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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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Taiwan
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
Act on Financial Technology Innovations and Experiments

Year Introduced: | 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…

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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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Argentina
Argentine Sectoral Fund (FONARSEC)

Year Introduced: | 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.