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.
GEN Atlas insights
The GEN Atlas is the world’s largest entrepreneurship policy compendium. This week’s deep dive examines Startup Acts. This makes use of nine separate GEN Atlas entries as well as resources from GEN knowledge partner Innovation for Policy Foundation.
Read the Startup Act deep dive
GEN community news
- Kauffman Foundation executive fellow and strategic advisor to the CEO Philip Gaskin has been appointed chair of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s newly-established Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee (IIEAC) (SBA)
- The OECD is recruiting a new head of division to lead the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (OECD)
- Jusoor - a global NGO that empowers Syrian youth through education, entrepreneurship and mentorship - is recruiting a new executive director (LinkedIn)
- The UK-based Centre for Entrepreneurs is running the sixth annual Refugee Entrepreneurship Summit in Izmir, Turkey later this month (CFE)
- EcoMap Technologies co-founder and COO Sherrod Davis delivered a moving tribute at a Baltimore vigil for Pava Lapere, co-founder and CEO of EcoMap, who was killed last week. (Sherrod’s tribute)
News
- Nigeria’s minister for communications, innovation and digital economy Dr. Bosun Tijani has set out plans to increase capital raised by Nigerian startups from $1bn/year in 2022 to $5bn/year in 2027 and create over 50,000 jobs in AI by 2030. These are the headline goals in a larger strategic plan, ‘Accelerating our collective prosperity through technical efficiency’ (Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy)
- Seoul’s mayor Oh Se-hoon used Seoul Fintech Week to pledge five trillion won ($3.7bn) to foster fintech startups into unicorns and transform the South Korean capital into a global fintech powerhouse through a 50,000 square meter space in Yeouido, the city’s financial district (Korea Times)
- The United Kingdom’s competition watchdog has open an investigation into Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services after concerns over their dominant position in the market (TNW)
- The Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy has launched a one-stop-shop for tech startups looking to set up or expand their business in the Emirate (Gulf News)
- Poland’s minister of digital affairs Janusz Cieszynski has called on the European Commission to shift its digital policy focus from tackling Big Tech to improving digital services for entrepreneurs (TNW)
Research & analysis
- Global Innovation Index 2023
Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore are the world’s most innovative economies in 2023, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization. The GII uses 80 indicators to track global innovation trends in 130+ economies, guiding policymakers and business leaders in stimulating human ingenuity. - Are ‘killer acquisitions’ by tech giants a real threat to competition?
Will Rinehart, senior research fellow at The Center for Growth and Opportunity, Utah State University challenges the expansive interpretation of Coleen Cunningham’s “Killer Acquisitions” paper that underpins the Biden Administration’s July 2021 executive order that marked a change in its approach to competition policy. - Workforce development in innovation precincts: Insights from global practice and implications for NSW
Australia’s New South Wales government has published a global review of place-based workforce programs that are critical to the success of NSW innovation precincts, generating jobs, increasing productivity and delivering benefits to the wider community.
Comment
- A free and open internet cannot be taken for granted (Amandeep Gill, UN secretary-general’s envoy on technology, and Vint Cerf, chair, Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel)
- Supporting mothers is supporting entrepreneurship (Jennifer Weinhart, senior policy advisor, Engine Advocacy & Foundation)
- The angel tax paradox: The unending saga for Indian startups (Suprita Anupam, senior journalist, Inc42)
- Ukraine’s untapped potential: Investment, opportunity and global growth (Maxim Sheaib, author, Kyiv Post)
Features
- Sifted: Who’s winning the tech tussle between Germany and France?
- Miami Herald: Miami visit gave a rare inside look at Cuba’s fledgling capitalists. Some takeaways
To suggest content for inclusion in future editions of 'The Startup State', please email matt@genglobal.org.
Get updates delivered directly to your inbox
Subscribe by selecting 'The Startup State' under communications permission in the form below.