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.
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The GEN Atlas is the world’s largest entrepreneurship policy compendium, featuring over 350 case studies from 70 countries. This week, our GEN Atlas Spotlight examines Europe’s Erasmus for Entrepreneurs scheme. Read the spotlight
News
- The United Nations has launched an AI Advisory Board to support the international community’s efforts to govern artificial intelligence. The Body brings together experts from government, the private sector, the research community, civil society, and academia (UN)
- France is set to copy the UK’s SEIS and EIS tax relief systems for angel investment into startups. Starting in 2024, individuals who invest in ‘young innovative companies’ will get a 30% income tax break (TechCrunch)
- Ireland has announced changes to capital gains tax, investor tax reliefs and the research & development tax credit in the latest budget (Irish Independent)
- Tanzania’s startup association has called for the creation of a public-private Tanzania Venture Capital Fund and the urgent establishment of a Tanzania Startup Policy (The Citizen)
- The United States has designated 31 communities across the country as Regional Innovation and Technology Hubs. These Tech Hubs will catalyze investment in technologies critical to economic growth, national security, and job creation (White House)
Comment
- The UK must embrace AI to build the giants of tomorrow’s global economy (Benedict Macon-Cooney, chief policy strategist, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)
- After years of explosive growth, the French tech ecosystem is at a turning point (Romain Dillet, senior writer, TechCrunch)
- What works in Boston won’t necessarily work in Birmingham: Four pragmatic principles for building commercialization capacity in innovation ecosystems (Melissa Roberts Chapman and Alice Wu, Federation of American Scientists)
- Building a taxonomy of innovation (David Ampudia, data scientist, Innovation Growth Lab)
- The quiet US revolution in AI regulation (Pablo Chavez, adjunct senior fellow, Center for New American Security)
- Canada’s Start-Up Visa program is struggling to fill the shoes of its predecessor (Stein Monteiro and Bradley Bernard, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Features
- Rest of World: Rest vs West: 40 companies that are beating the West
- Politico: The odds are against Rishi Sunak’s AI summit. He might just pull it off
- Technology Review: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI
Inviting bids to host the 2024 Startup Nations Summit
We are pleased to announce our intention to host a Startup Nations Summit in November 2024 as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. This invitation-only event will convene up to 300 government officials, advisors, policy experts, and researchers from around the world. We have shared the RFP with select pre-approved governments, but please email me if your government is interested in bidding to host this event.
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