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
- Kenya is considering regulatory sandboxes to oversee new technologies like digital currencies. Kenya’s Communications Authority’s suggestion comes amid scrutiny of WorldCoin’s approval to collect biometric information from Kenyans (TechCabal)
- G7 countries have agreed to create an international code of conduct for artificial intelligence (Politico)
- Singapore’s state-owned investor Temasek has called for a Southeast Asian single digital market to spur the next wave of growth for tech companies in the region (Nikkei Asia)
- The EU has named six tech giants whose market power it aims to control through its Digital Markets Act - a landmark pro-competition regulation, designed to ensure a fair and open digital market for both companies and consumers (TNW)
- Indonesia has issued its first ‘Golden Visa’ to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as it seeks to draw foreign investors (Time)
Research & analysis
- Passport to progress: A blueprint for the world’s most pro-innovation visa system
This report by UK-based think tank The Entrepreneurs Network explains how immigration can enhance entrepreneurship and innovation, analyzes international visa frameworks, and makes a series of recommendations for improving migration systems worldwide. - Financing programs for women’s financial inclusion and access to finance for women MSMEs
This IDB report presents the highlights from a survey completed by 54 public development banks (PDBs) examining how PDBs are serving women and their businesses by mapping existing programs and identifying current practices, innovations, challenges, and opportunities in this agenda. - Developing a green, resilient, and inclusive entrepreneurship policy framework for Nepal
This ICIMOD report portrays the entrepreneurship landscape in Nepal and intends to help policymakers at federal provincial, and local level, ecosystem actors and academics to gain a bird’s-eye view of what impediments and opportunities exist in Nepal for reformative action.
Comment
- Japanese entrepreneurs can learn from leading startup countries such as Israel (Yasutoshi Nishimura, minister of economy, trade and industry, Japan)
- How the national deep tech startup policy can help chart a new era in innovation (Mahankali Srinivas Rao, chief executive officer, T-Hub)
- How the AI revolution will reshape the world (Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and CEO, Inflection AI)
- How to realize Africa’s $1.5 trillion AI opportunity (Bridget Boakye, senior policy advisor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)
- Translating theory into practice: How toolkits are informing, inspiring, and influencing policy (Anna Goulden, research & policy analyst, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose)
- The promise and peril of online gig work in developing countries (Iffath Sharif, global director for social protection and jobs and Christine Zhenwei Qiang, director, digital development global practice, World Bank)
- How can the EU product liability directive best support the startup ecosystem (Allied for Startups)
Features
- Rest of World: Guess who’s getting the world’s first self-sovereign national digital ID?
Most of Bhutan’s 780,000-plus population is expected to be enrolled in this system within the year. - Time: The 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence
- Sifted: The fight for square footage: Why Europe’s startups are battling for lab space
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