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.
News
- Taiwan has agreed a new $372m four-year Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan to expand the development of the Internet of Things industry (Focus Taiwan)
- South Korea has amended its Small and Medium Business Support Act to expand business support and funding to businesses founded by Koreans outside the country (Pulse News)
- Japan has given the green light to a bill that permits investment funds and venture capital firms to hold cryptocurrency assets, enabling these firms to better support web3 startups (Asia Tech Daily
Publications & analysis
- Demographic transition, entrepreneurship and MSME development: A policy perspective
This B&FT essay by Hayford Danso, former head, public sector at FBN Bank, sets out policy recommendations for the ongoing development of Ghana’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. - Generation growth: The small business manifesto
This Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses report surveys 550 alumni of the program to set out policy recommendations that could improve worker efficiency and unlock £106bn in private sector revenue and create 88,000 jobs.
Comment
- Catalyzing start-up growth through progressive policies (Dr. Sasmit Patra, member of parliament (India) and Kazim Rizvi, founding director, The Dialogue)
- If the UK government is serious about the success of tech startups, the first step is better data – and more of it (Kir Nuthi, head of tech regulation, Startup Coalition)
- Europe’s government grant system is not fit for purpose. Startups deserve better (Diane Gilpin, CEO and founder, Smart Green Shipping)
- Why government agencies need two operating systems to innovate and work effectively (Bill Brantley, contributor, American Society for Public Administration)
- Why America should be celebrating entrepreneurs, not presidents (Jonathan Bean, research fellow, Independent Institute and Blaine McCormick, management professor, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University)
- Entrepreneurship in Macau is an obstacle course (Keith Morrison, contributor, Macau Business)
- Biden proposal threatens California’s engine of innovation (Carol Mimura, assistant vice chancellor for intellectual property and industry research alliances, UC Berkeley)
Features
- Nikkei: Harvard, Oxford graduates power Vietnam’s tech startup scene
- TheNextWeb: Inside Finland’s state-of-the-art quantum computing hardware ecosystem
- Forbes: Tech Nation prioritizes support for Britain’s diverse founders
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