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
- Only 15% of tech startup founders are women
Startup Genome ecosystem assessment data comprising 5,469 respondents across 67 global ecosystems over six years shows that the startup world remains male-dominated. - Brussels government plans to loosen rules on entrepreneurship
The government of the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium will ease regulations that currently oblige anyone looking to start a business but has not obtained a higher education diploma to take a basic management knowledge exam. - Ivorian government unveils startup act to support local entrepreneurship scene
Inspired by Tunisia and several other African countries, Cote d’Ivoire has announced a startup act to offer state-of-the-art infrastructure and amenities to eligible startups.
Insight
- Tech Nation weighs in one last time: Bubble burst or continued growth of the UK tech ecosystem - it’s up to stakeholders, investors, and the government
Tech.eu summarizes the findings of ‘How to build a scaleup’, the final report of Tech Nation - the UK’s entrepreneurship agency - before it closes down today. - Supporting persons with disabilities in entrepreneurship
This OECD policy brief explores the potential of entrepreneurship policy to support the labour market participation of people with disabilities. - UK to avoid fixed rules for AI in favor of ‘context-specific guidance
Techcrunch details the UK government’s AI regulation white paper ‘A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation’ which seeks to “regulate the use, not the technology”. - National Entrepreneurship Strategy - Seychelles
The NES, built upon the UNCTAD Entrepreneurship Policy Framework, highlights the challenges facing an entrepreneur in Seychelles and sets out a strategy and implementation plan to realize a vision that, by 2030, “Seychelles will foster a more resilient and innovative entrepreneurial ecosystem that nurtures, supports and scales-up successful entrepreneurs”.
Comment
- Bola Tinubu and his plans for Nigeria’s tech ecosystem (Noah Banjo, senior editor, techcabal examines the Nigerian President Elect’s manifesto which featured a section on ‘The digital economy: Taking advantage of the fourth industrial revolution’ )
- Community-engaged research can improve outcomes,and ultimately change the landscape of programs and policies in the U.S. (Julie Scheidegger and Katey Stoetzel, Kauffman Foundation)
- The European Union’s AI Act, explained (Spencer Feingold, digital editor, World Economic Forum)
- What the age of AI means for the world (Bill Gates)
Features
- Sifted: Meet the man tasked with opening Silicon Valley to European tech (feature on Gerard de Graaf, the EU’s tech envoy to San Francisco)
- Politico: Reimagining access to capital (sponsored content by Kauffman Foundation)
- UNHCR: Entrepreneurship training helps Venezuelan refugees find stability
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