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
- The Qatar Investment Authority is launching a $1bn venture capital fund of funds for international and regional venture capital funds (TechCrunch
- Spain is launching ‘the state society for technological transformation’ to accelerate the injection of €20bn through various funds into deeptech and audiovisual companies in the country (Sifted
- Malaysia has stated its ambition to elevate Kuala Lumpur to become one of the world’s top 20 cities for startups. The goal will be pursued through a blueprint to be unveiled later this year (New Straits Times
- Australia’s New South Wales Government has opened submissions for its Innovation Blueprint, seeking to make it’s support for the innovation sector “more collaborative” (Startup Daily
Publications & analysis
- Women-led high-growth enterprise taskforce report
This UK government-commissioned report sets out findings and recommendations of a task force aimed at increasing the number of women-led high-growth businesses across all UK regions.
Comment
- Business statistics as usual will no longer suffice (Rudiger Ahrend, Sandrine Kergroach and Annabelle Mourougane, OECD)
- The commercialization of university research: The role of people versus place (Josh Lerner, Henry Manley, Carolyn Stein and Heidi Williams)
- Why the WTO moratorium on digital tariff should be extended (Tibor Hanappi, Adam Jakubik and Michele Ruta, IMF)
- Enforcing Europe’s Digital Market Act (Christophe Carugati, founder, Digital Competition)
- Unlocking Europe’s digital future: The urgency for a commissioner of digital entrepreneurship (Timea Barocz, operations manager, Startup Hungary)
- Will bipartisanship unlock the dream for disabled entrepreneurs? (Thomas Foley and Nikki Powis, National Disability Institute)
Features
- TechCrunch: Don’t ignore Asia tech
Twelve years of reporting from the world’s most dynamic ecosystems.
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