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 plans to invest NT$150bn (USD $4.63bn) in startups annually for five years to create 20,000 jobs and become a startup-exporting nation within the next decade (Tapei Times)
- Ireland’s central bank is launching a regulatory sandbox program later this year to encourage the development of innovative projects in the financial sector (Law Society)
- Israel’s tech sector accounts for 20% of its economy and 53% of exports according to the latest annual report of the Israel Innovation Authority. The report identifies 600 new startups launched in 2023, with a total of 9,200 and a workforce of 400,000 (Reuters)
- Allied for Startups members, comprising startup associations across Europe, have published an open letter calling for the establishment of a dedicated startup and scaleup intergroup in the European Parliament (AFS)
Research & analysis
- Why some innovation districts flourish while others fail
This Buro Happold analysis of Urban Land Institute, Brookings Institution and Global Institute on Innovation Districts research identifies the key factors that determine the success of innovation districts. - Legal reform as a catalyst for social enterprise: An international enterprise law and policy report
This LexMundi ProBono Foundation report reviews 83 jurisdictions to identify legal structures and policies that nations can adopt to catalyze the advancement of social enterprises around the world. Summary article - Power in perseverance: Understanding the journey of women entrepreneurs in Yemen
This World Bank report reveals enablers and constraints that offer insights to support women’s economic participation in conflict contexts.
Comment
- Unveiling the startup illusion: Critical questions every policymaker must answer (Salma Baghdadi, innovation lead, WAVE)
- Taking our (Bangladeshi) ecosystem to the next level (Waseem Alim, co-founder, Chaldal)
- Forget employees. Artificial intelligence may also upend entrepreneurship as we know it (Alex Kruglov, co-founder and CEO, pop.in)
- What is the informal economy and how many people work in it? (Simon Torkington, senior writer, World Economic Forum)
- Will Europe ever match the U.S. for startup investment and growth? (Kjartan Rist, founding partner, Concentric)
- Reduce cost of doing business to facilitate investment (Sukanta Halder, staff correspondent, The Daily Star, Bangladesh)
- Why Breakthrough Victoria is critical to commercialization for science startups (Russel Yardley, chair, Algonquin Investments)
- Why European spacetech hasn’t quite taken off - yet (Anne Sraders, senior report, Sifted)
Features
- MBA Watch: What it’s like to teach entrepreneurship in a North Korean business school
- GovInsider: Inside Poland’s ‘CanDoCracy’ approach to govtech
- Time: How commerce secretary Gina Raimondo became America’s point woman on AI
- TechCrunch: Iceland’s startup scene is all about making the most of the country’s resources
- TechCabal: Inside Innovation City’s mission to congregate Cape Town’s innovation ecosystem in one place
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 examining the policies underpinning countries’ entrepreneurial success, Policy Deep Dives comparing different countries’ approaches to common policy challenges, and Atlas Spotlights highlighting 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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