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, featuring over 350 case studies from 70 countries. This week, our GEN Atlas spotlight on evidence examines DataCity Paris - an open innovation program active since 2016. Read the spotlight
News
- Cyprus has launched a public consultation on the draft research and innovation strategy for 2024-2026 (Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy)
- The Netherlands has launched Dutch Future Fund II, a €200m ($217m) investment agreement that will assist 10-12 venture capital funds, in turn providing growth financing to 100+ Dutch startups (tech.eu)
- Startup funding in Europe is down more than half at €45bn ($49bn) in 2023, according to Atomico’s latest State of European Tech report (Tech.eu summary; Report)
- South Korea will teach entrepreneurship as a separate subject to first-year high schools students from 2025 (Pulse News)
- Over 100 startups, VCs and labs in France have joined to launch France Deeptech, a new organization that will push the interests of the deeptech sector with the French government and EU legislators (Sifted)
- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has opened the Tokyo Innovatino Base, a facility for domestic and international startups, investors, students and others to meet and develop partnerships (Japan News)
Publications and analysis
- David Storey: An intellectual pillar in SME and entrepreneurship scholarship and policy research
A tribute to the late academic David Storey, written by David Audretsch, Robert Blackburn, Steven Brieger, Alex Coad, Steven McGuire, Jonathan Potter, Roger Strange and Mirela Zheneti. - Index of Dynamic Entrepreneurship: Dialogues for a wider approach to sustainable entrepreneurship
PRODEM and GEN are pleased to release the sixth edition of IDE - an index that provides reliable measures and insights for 50 countries about the social, economic, cultural, political and regulatory conditions that affect the creation of dynamic new firms. - The Global Startup Ecosystem Report: Climatetech Edition
Startup Genome and GEN are pleased to release a new report that examines the state of startup activity and related investment in cleantech and blue economy sectors. - The Missing Entrepreneurs 2023
This OECD report is the seventh edition of a biennial report examining how government policies can release untapped entrepreneurial potential from under-represented parts of the population, including women, youth, seniors, the unemployed, immigrants and people with disabilities. - The business of state
What is state ownership and why does it matter? This World Bank report analyzes how different ownership arrangements across sectors and institutional settings affect private investment, productivity, technology adoption and job creation. - Policy brief on access to finance for inclusive and social entrepreneurship
This OECD policy brief presents evidence on the access to finance challenges faced by entrepreneurs from underrepresented and disadvantaged groups and social entrepreneurs and discusses how public policy could harness the potential of fintech to address these challenges. - Embedding entrepreneurship competence in vocational education and training (VET)
This Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini report delves into effective methods and strategies for embedding entrepreneurship within VET. - Bridging the gap between Silicon Valley and the Capital Beltway: Lessons learned from the U.S. government’s venture capital and startup engagements in intelligence and defense
This thesis extracts and analyzes lessons learned and best practices from federal intelligence- and defense-related investment vehicles.
Comment
- Why Europe must not let AI firms put profits before people (Kersti Kaljulaid, former president of Estonia)
- Are you one of the OECD’s 34 million missing entrepreneurs? (Jonathan Potter and David Halabisky, OECD)
- Why the ‘cult of the entrepreneur’ is leaving out climate entrepreneurs (Diane Gilpin, founder and CEO, Smart Green Shipping)
- Industrial policy is back! But do countries have the capacity to successfully implement it? (Philipp Barkeska, PhD student, LSE)
- How Milei presidency could boost Argentine fintech (David Feliba, contributor, Fintech Nexus)
Features
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