Welcome to ‘The Startup State’ - a weekly bulletin from the GEN Policy and Research team highlighting key entrepreneurship announcements, reports, commentary and features from around the world.
News
- Finland is the latest country to reform employee stock options by moving taxation to the moment shares are sold rather than when options are exercised. The move could impact nearly 50,000 startup jobs (PocketGamer)
- South Korea has identified 'D.A.S.H. - Defense, Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors, and Healthcare' as the key future industries that it will focus startup support on (Maeil Business)
Bangladesh Bank will launch a public investment fund next month with an initial $49m in funds (TBS News)
Comment and analysis
- OECD Business Innovation Statistics: Unpacking key trends and findings (OECD)
- Building the ecosystem around the rules: What AI startups actually need from policy (Jennifer Woodard, chief product and technology officer, Logically)
- Completing the EU Inc regime: A VC-gated startup sandbox (Jesus Alfaro Aguila-Real, professor of commercial law, Autonomous University of Madrid)
- Entrepreneurship in Canada is on the decline but can be fixed (Jay Goldberg, Canadian affairs manager, Consumer Choice Center)
- Universities are sitting on the next great companies (Paul O'Brien, author, Startup Economist)
- French tech has built its ecosystem but not its consensus (Gregory Herbert, CEO, Frisbii - in French)
- The myth of AI sovereignty (Jeremy Hurgens, managing director, World Economic Forum)
Features
- Germany's entrepreneurs betting on post-Maduro Venezuela (DW)
- Cuba courts exiles, entrepreneurs in reform effort (Global Finance)
- Brussels does Delaware: Von der Leyen chases startups but unions see danger (Politico)
- Iceland might be Europe's most exciting startup hub (per capita) (Sifted)
- Korea - France startup corridor moves from soft-landing to industrial integration (KoreaTechDesk)x
Township tech entrepreneur sets sights beyond South Africa (African Business)
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The opinions expressed in the articles above are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Global Entrepreneurship Network.