Welcome to ‘The Startup State’ - a weekly bulletin from the GEN Policy and Research team highlighting key entrepreneurship news, reports, commentary and features from around the world.
News
- China has introduced a raft of measures to boost entrepreneurship and innovation among college students (China Daily)
- Non-resident investments into Indian startups from 21 countries, including the US and UK, will not incur angel tax (Times of India)
- The Austrian federal government has introduced legislation including an employee stock ownership scheme and a new corporate form ‘FlexKap’ that allows for a lower minimum tax (The Local)
Insight
- Startup20 India draft communique
Startup20, the new engagement group launched earlier this year by the Indian Government under its presidency of the G20 has released a draft communique that seeks to ‘set the benchmark for the way the global startup ecosystem will be structured and will evolve’. Public feedback is invited here.
Comment
- Governance of superintelligence (Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI)
- Tech lords threatening to pull services should stop crying wolf (Thomas Macaulay, TheNextWeb)
- Where is Africa in the global conversation on regulating AI? (Ganiu Oloruntade and Faith Omoniyi, TechCabal)
- How entrepreneurs and policymakers shaped Bangladesh’s resilient growth trajectory (Syed Akhtar Mahmood, economist)
- The path forward for growing Nigeria’s digital economy (Oswald Osaretin Guobadia, outgoing senior special assistant on digital transformation to the President of Nigeria)
Features
- New York Times: Startups bring Silicon Valley ethos to a lumbering military-industrial complex
- Realistic Optimist: The Brazilian stock market’s battle to retain its startups
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