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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Barcelona's Mobile Acceleration Program

Year Introduced: | City-level

NUMA Barcelona's Mobile Acceleration Program operates as a structured initiative designed to boost the growth of digital startups in the mobile technology sector. The program runs in annual cycles,…

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22@Barcelona

Year Introduced: | City-level

22@Barcelona works through a comprehensive urban renewal strategy that combines physical transformation, economic revitalization, and social innovation. The project operates by repurposing the former…

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Tech Nation

Year Introduced: | National-level

TechNation operates as a comprehensive growth platform for the UK tech industry, focusing on empowering ambitious tech entrepreneurs and their companies through various initiatives and support…

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Austria
WienWin: Vienna Public Procurement from Innovative Businesses

Year Introduced: | City-level

With this project Vienna aims to strengthen the city as a centre for innovation by using the city's purchasing power of approximately € 5 billion per year to support innovative businesses in the…

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Growth Hubs Network

Year Introduced: | Sub-national

Growth Hubs aim to improve the coordination and delivery of business support services to local companies based on local needs with a focus on:Administrative procedures (e.g.: taxes,…

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Portugal
Entrepreneur's Desk

Year Introduced: | National-level

The Entrepreneur’s Desk (Balcão do Empreendedor) initiative simplifies entrepreneurship and business regulatory compliance by offering a single government digital portal for entrepreneurs and…

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Estonia
Attracting and Retaining Talent: Talendid Koju

Year Introduced: | National-level

At its core, the initiative offered an online platform that connected Estonians living abroad and looking for a job with employers looking for talented additions to their workforce. Via the platform,…

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Converge Challenge

Year Introduced: | Sub-national

The Converge Challenge is primarily a business creation competition and entrepreneurship development programme for staff, students and recent graduates of all Scottish universities and research…

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Cooperative Venturing Program

Year Introduced: | Sub-national

The Cooperative Venturing Program primarily uses diverse teams of mentors to help entrepreneurs secure capital and expand their networks. Two key elements of the Cooperative Venturing model are…

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Funding: equal access to the right kind of capital

Year Introduced: | National-level

Recommended responses to the pandemic-induced crisis:  Short-term lending to businesses not eligible federal loans: State and local governments should partner with philanthropic organizations…