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
- Israel’s parliament has approved an “Angels Law”, granting tax benefits to invests in the local high-tech industry as well as incentives for purchasing other tech companies if the IP is registered in Israel and their operations are based in the country (AI Monitor)
- Japan has identified and engaged around 200 high-tech startups that it hopes to encourage to enter the defense industry. It will explain its priority areas for R&D and procurement, and provide financial support to encourage their entry to the defense sector (Nikkei)
- Canada’s Tech Talent Strategy aimed at luring H-1B visa holders from the U.S. with generous work permits exhausted its allocation capacity of 10,000 applicants one day after opening (Immigration Canada)
Comment
- Queensland fund investing in innovative places and precincts (Chad Renando, MD, GEN Australia)
- With cabinet list expected this week, Nigeria’s ecosystem players are cautiously optimistic about Tinubu’s presidency (Ganiu Oloruntade, reporter, TechCabal)
- Hung parliament leaves Spanish startups’ hopes for pro-scaleup policies in limbo (Zosnia Wanat and Tim Smith, senior reporters, Sifted)
- Africa pursues free trade amid global fragmentation (Boutheina Guermazi and Mona Haddad, World Bank)
Features
- Japan’s bureaucrats flock to startups to make social impact (Nikkei Asia)
- Startups in Cambodia amplifying at a good clip (Khmer Times)
- Mykhailo Federov is running Ukraine’s war like a startup (Wired)
This is the last newsletter of the summer. The Startup State will return on 1st September.
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