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.
Global Startup Ecosystem Report
Next Thursday, GEN and Startup Genome launch the 2023 edition of the world’s most comprehensive and quality-controlled dataset on startup ecosystems.
Informed by data on 3.5 million startups across 290+ global ecosystems, the Global Startup Ecosystem Report provides compelling new insights and deep knowledge about startup trends including the impact of inflation, AI regulation, talent attraction, trends in global VC funding, and sub-sector analyses. Contributions from expert thought leaders and local key players further enrich the report’s extensive, evidence-based findings and ranking, which are the product of over a decade of Startup Genome’s independent research and policy work.
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News
- London has been named the top global city for tech investment over the past decade, according to new data from London & Partners ahead of London Tech Week (UKTechNews)
- The EU has launched a new initiative this week to help 100 deep tech startups become unicorns, as the bloc looks to accelerate growth in green and digital technologies (TNW)
- Dubai has attracted 30 digital startups in Q1 2023 and is targeting 300 over the coming years (Arabian Business)
- Allied for Startups and other startup communities have issued a joint open letter making recommendations for the EU’s planned European Health Data Space (Allied for Startups)
Insight
- State of European tech: First look 2023
Tech.EU summarizes the findings of Atomico’s slimmed-down State of European Tech report that analyzes the first six months of 2023. - Diversity dividend: Exploring gender equality in the African tech ecosystem
Disrupt Africa has found that fewer than 10% of African tech startups are led by a female CEO. The report analyzes 2,395 African startups. - Moving fast with frontier technologies
UNCTAD has published a report calling on governments of developing countries to take proactive action to increase preparedness to use, adopt and adapt frontier technologies (such as AI, the internet of things, and renewable energy) and to take up the economic opportunities linked to them. - A UK tech plan: How the next government can use technology to build a better Britain
techUK, the UK technology trade association, has set out 18 opportunities to make Britain better for people, society, the economy, and the planet.
Comment
- My plan to deal with Sierra Leone’s colossal doing business problem (Marda Mustapha, executive director, Sierra Leone National Investment Board)
- The new startup scene in China - and what it means (Christopher Schroeder, co-founder, Next Billion Ventures)
- The prosperity gap: A proposed new indicator to monitor shared prosperity (Aart Kraay, deputy chief economist, World Bank)
- Why do African governments struggle with the digitalization of public services? (Ganiu Oloruntade and Muktar Oladunmade, reporters, Tech Cabal)
- For the sake of Britain’s startups, it’s time to bring competition policy into the 21st century (Jeff Lynn, co-founder, Seedrs)
- Does the U.S. need a national privacy policy? (Thad Reuter, writer, Government Technology)
- What UK policymakers need to learn from ARM’s listing on the U.S. stock exchange (Fiona Murray, associate dean of innovation and inclusion, MIT School of Management)
- Tajikistan: Empowering women in cross-border trade (Nato Kurshitashvili, Heidi Stensland Warren and Mariyam Raziyeva, World Bank)
Features
- Africa.com: Bridging the gender gap: How African governments can empower female tech entrepreneurs
- Government Technology: About face: How should governments regulate emerging tech?
- Washington Post: The tech industry was deflating. Then came ChatGPT
- Politico: Czar wars: Vestager and Breton fight over AI throne
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