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.
 

Year Introduced: | National-level

The project provides technical assistance to support key business sectors through the following activities: Training courses in business management, business advice and sector-specific…

Year Introduced: | National-level

Phantom shares work as a form of incentive for employees without modifying the company's capital structure or ownership. They are used particularly by start-ups that may lack financial resources to…

Year Introduced: | 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…

Malaysia

Year Introduced: | National-level

MaGIC Activate is an open innovation challenge platform that supports the innovation of corporates and private sector players by connecting them with a global community of entrepreneurs. The platform…

Year Introduced: | National-level

This Law of Simplified Stock Companies "Empresas por Acciones Simplificadas" (EAS for its acronym in Spanish) is the sum of efforts to articulate solutions to the barriers reported by the…

Year Introduced: | National-level

CEmprende offers: Access to coworking Access to high-impact activities with partners Incubation and acceleration programs Financing Access to specialized laboratories These are available at…

Ecuador

Year Introduced: | Supra-national

The Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Sustainable Ecuador Strategy 2030 (EEIS Strategy 2030) is a participatory proposal and a contribution of the Alianza para el Emprendimiento y la Innovación (AEI)…

Year Introduced: | National-level

The strategy contains 50 measures to achieve the four objectives outlined above, however, it highlights the following 9 as the most significant:  Strengthening the 'Spain as an…

Year Introduced: | National-level

SEFA's core function is to provide SMMEs and Co-operatives throughout South Africa with simple access to finance in an efficient and sustainable manner. It achieves this by delivering wholesale and…

New Zealand

Year Introduced: | National-level

Global Impact Visa (GIV) is a three-year open work visa that enables participants in the Edmund Hillary Fellowship to work and live in New Zealand. The visa provides up to 400 individual pioneering…