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 and Startup Genome launched the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2024 at London Tech Week this week. GSER is a comprehensive analysis of the current state of startup ecosystems worldwide.
News
- Denmark has published an entrepreneurship strategy featuring 41 proposals to improve the conditions for startups and entrepreneurs. The plan comes with DKK 2.1bn ($300m) budget per year until 2026 and $150m per year from 2027 (Danish Government - in Danish)
- Cyprus has launched a regulatory sandbox to advance financial, regulatory and supervisory technologies (Cyprus Mail)
- The United States has announced a record 18 million new business applications during the Biden-Harris Administration (White House)
- Dubai has installed chief artificial intelligence officers into 22 government departments as a first step toward its vision for the future of government work (The Circuit)
Research & analysis
- The tech nation report 2024
This Tech Nation report sets out the investment data and trends shaping the future of UK tech startups and founders in the age of AI. - Arete index: The most value-creating angels
This Arete Index, Hartmann Holdings, Founders Forum Group and Accumulator report collects the world’s 1,000 top value-creating angel investors. - A techno-economic agenda for the next administration
This Information Technology & Innovation Foundation report offers a comprehensive techno-economic agenda with 82 actionable policy recommendations to help the next White House administration place innovation, productivity, and competitiveness at the core of its economic policy.
Comment
- Do unemployment benefits stifle entrepreneurship? It’s complicated (Daragh O’Leary, post-doctoral researcher, University of Galway)
- From China to Singapore, Asia’s AI policy ‘gaps’ pose headaches for business (Dylan Loh and Cissy Zhou, Nikkei Asia)
- OK UK government, what have you done for fintech recently? (Liz Lumley, deputy editor, The Banker)
- Proposed law to control powerful AI models will destroy California’s nascent industry (James Thomason, managing partner, Next Wave Partners)
- Agile Gulf governments are better placed than many to avoid the errors states often make when they get involved in the private sector (Omar Al-Ubaydli, director of economics and energy studies, Deresat)
- Putting Italian startups on the map at last with Italian Founders Fund (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)
- Memo to Europe’s new parliament: Embrace tech (Bill Echikson, non-resident senior fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis)
Features
- Sifted: French founders’ favourite business angel? Unemployment benefits
- The Realistic Optimist: Ukraine’s startup ecosystem, today
- Friedrich Naumann Foundation: Entrepreneurs from Venezuela in Peru and their contribution to the country’s economy
- Xinhua: Türkiye’s startup ecosystem gains steam, eyes global market
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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