Atlas: GEN’s Policy Portal

Year Introduced: 2010 | 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…

Year Introduced: 2015 | 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…

Year Introduced: 2020 | 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…

Year Introduced: 1998 | National-level

Siva provides financial support to incubators and business gardens enlisted in these programmes: 1. The Incubators Programme aims to boost innovative entrepreneurship and support further development…

Year Introduced: 2019 | National-level

Policymakers should: Competitive grants: Develop competitive grants to modernize the 63 Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) and more than 900 service locations, with a focus on facilitated…

Year Introduced: 2015 | National-level

The TechLeap.NL initiative includes a wide range of actions involving different actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and intervening at different stages of the entrepreneurship process, from…

Year Introduced: 2020 | National-level

The proposed Startups Equity Investment Program would allocate $2 billion in federal dollars ($1.5 billion initially, and $500 million in follow-on investment) to the states on a straightforward…