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's featured entry examines the European Innovation Council. Read the entry
News
- Pakistan has launched BridgeStart - a program to fund 100 startups annually to take part in any of the top 40 incubators and accelerators worldwide (Pakistan Today)
- The United States Small Business Administration has unveiled it’s updated Equity Action Plan to improve access to loan capital, procurement opportunities, training and investment capital for traditionally underserved and underrepresented communities (SBA) Separately, the SBA announced the 200,000th graduate of the ‘Boots to Business’ military entrepreneurship program (SBA)
- The United Kingdom Start Up Loan Scheme has now delivered 15,000 loans worth over £100m ($126m) to 18-24 year old small business owners (UK Government)
Publications and analysis
- Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2023/2024 Global Report
The latest GEM global report – surveying 136,000 individuals across 46 economies on their attitudes, perceptions and activities relating to entrepreneurship – was launched in Morocco this week. One of the key findings is that entrepreneurial education in most economies continues to be assessed as poor by national entrepreneurship experts. - SME and Entrepreneurship Policy in the Slovak Republic
This OECD report examines how to stimulate more productive entrepreneurship, support scale-ups, stimulate SME exports, increase SME innovation, and make entrepreneurship more inclusive in the Slovak Republic.
Comment
- What governments could learn from startups on AI (Robyn Scott, co-founder and CEO, Apolitical)
- Leveraging the power of youth entrepreneurship organisations (Salvatore Nigro, CEO, JA Europe and David Halabisky, project coordinator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities)
- How Africa can attract tech investment beyond the “big four” (Morris Macharia Musyoka, contributor, African Business)
- Britain is an entrepreneurial nation (Derin Kocer, policy researcher, The Entrepreneurs Network)
- Taiwanese tech is more than semiconductors (Christopher Cytera, non-resident senior fellow, Digital Innovation Initiative, Center for European Policy Analysis)
- UAE and India are now the best places to start a business, but Western countries still beat them in one key respect (Sreevas Sahasranamam, professor, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and Aileen Ionescu-Somers, lecturer in entrepreneurship, Universite de Lausanne)
Features
- The Interpreter: How to fix Japan
Book review of ‘The contest for Japan’s economic future: Entrepreneurs vs corporate giants’ by Richard Katz - TechCabal: Backed by political will, Sierra Leone wants to become the “Estonia of Africa”
- Allied for Startups: EU elections manifestos: What’s in them for startups?
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