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 community news
- GEN has recruited leading Puerto Rico entrepreneurship organizations as partners for the upcoming GEC+Puerto Rico event that will bring together thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers and ecosystem leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean. (GEN)
- The International Chamber of Commerce has opened its fifteenth Centre of Entrepreneurship, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (ICC)
- Startup Genome is recruiting for a business analyst in its New Delhi office (SG)
- European Startup Network has relaunched with new management and issued a ‘ten-point plan for a competitive continent’ (ESN | Sifted)
- Tech Safari is partnering with Founders Connect to host Afrotech Fest on June 1st – a festival in London celebrating Africa’s tech ecosystem (Tech Safari)
News
- The United Arab Emirates is partnering with local venture capital firms to invest $1bn into South Korean startups – the first step in UAE’s promise to invest $30bn in the country (Business Korea)
- The United Kingdom’s medical regulator has launched AI Airlock - a new regulatory sandbox for AI as a medical device (gov.uk)
- The European Investment Bank has stepped up its support for Europe’s security and defense industry by updating its definition of dual-use goods and infrastructure eligible for funding and will now intermediate financing for defense SMEs (tech.eu)
Comment
- The FTC’s noncompete ban was long overdue (Orly Lobel, director, Center for Employment and Labor Policy, University of San Diego)
- Biden’s AI executive order will actually decrease regulation in the long run (Alex Petropoulos, tech policy fellow, Training for Good)
- Are city governments ready to embrace the AI revolution? (H.E. Younus Al Nasser, chief executive, Dubai Data & Statistics Establishment, Digital Dubai)
- UAE is on a path to becoming the AI capital of the world (Mayank Sharma, tech editor, Economy Middle East)
- The race to regulate: Comparing the UK and EU’s approach to fostering distributed ledger technology (Marcus van Abbe, head of digital market infrastructures, R3)
- Bad government policy on capital gains leads to more distrust, more departures (Kim Moody, former chair, Canadian Tax Foundation)
Features
- Politico EU: Wayve’s charm offensive: How slick lobbying helped bag Europe’s biggest AI deal
- TechCrunch: Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge – and opportunity
- Politico US: An ambitious San Francisco lawmaker is in the middle of a battle for AI’s future
GEN Atlas insights
The GEN Atlas is the world’s largest entrepreneurship policy compendium, featuring over 370 case studies from 70 countries. Using these case studies, we publish Country Deep Dives that examine the policies underpinning countries’ entrepreneurial success, Policy Deep Dives that compare different countries’ approaches to common policy challenges, and Atlas Spotlights that highlight the best examples of policies under a broad theme. Recent highlights:
- Atlas spotlights: Finance
- Policy deep dives: Startup visas | Youth entrepreneurship | Supporting ethnic minority entrepreneurs
- Country deep dives: South Africa | France | The Netherlands
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