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.
GEC
This week, thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and ecosystem leaders convened in Melbourne for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Key announcements:
- Startup Genome and GEN released a new report that reveals the DNA of successful scaleups (GEN)
- The GEN Compass Awards celebrated top entrepreneurship champions including South African minister of small business development Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, El Salvador minister of economy Maria Luisa Hayem, and GEN Australia MD Chad Renando (GEN)
- The GEN annual Impact Report was released, demonstrating how we fuel healthier start and scale ecosystems through a comprehensive global footprint of national operations and global verticals in policy, research and programs (GEN)
- GEN will return 1-5 June 2025 in Indiana, United States (GEN)
Read GEN Global senior advisor Dane Stangler’s daily dispatches from GEC Melbourne for Forbes (Day one, Day two, Day three)
GEN Atlas
GEN has unveiled over 100 new and updated case studies on the newly revamped GEN Atlas - the world’s largest entrepreneurship policy compendium. Read more about the revamp, how you use its new, improved search functionality, and how you can help contribute to the Atlas below.
As part of the relaunch, GEN is starting weekly insights - deep-dives into policy areas and countries. Read our first deep-dive - on the entrepreneurship policies underpinning Spain’s entrepreneurial success - below.
News
- United Kingdom has delivered over £1bn of support to over 100,000 small firms through its Start Up Loan scheme (gov.uk)
- Malta’s economy minister used the opening of TECHXPO, the country’s first tech expo, to launch a new €10m venture capital fund (Malta Independent)
- India’s Tamil Nadu state has launched a startup and innovation policy to support the state government’s vision of becoming a $1 trillion USD economy by 2030 (Business Standard)
- Mauritania is the latest African country to unveil a draft startup act aiming to harness innovation as the driving force behind digital development, entrepreneurship, and corporate competitiveness (African Heroes)
Comment
- Regulatory discretion fosters clean tech (Shon Hiatt, associate professor, USC Marshall School of Business and Jake B Grandy, assistant professor, University of Arkansas)
- What ails Nepali entrepreneurship? (Mukesh Khanal, public policy researcher, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
- How Canada can make its startup ecosystem more inclusive (Leanna Hedberg, director of social innovation institute and associate professor of entrepreneurship and innovation, MacEwan University)
- Malaysia’s startup ecosystem is behind it’s potential (Kevin Brockland, founder and managing director, Indelible Ventures)
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