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 European Union has published ‘The future of European competitiveness’, a major report by Mario Draghi that calls upon Europe to invest an additional €800bn a year to drag itself out of a trough of low productivity and feeble growth (Politico summary)
- Greece will expand eligibility for Golden Visas that bring five-year residency permits and passports to foreigners who invest at least €250,000 ($280k) into Greek startups as an alternative to investing in properties (National Herald)
- New Zealand is increasing the tax-exempt thresholds for employee share schemes from NZD $5,000 (USD $3,000) to NZD 7,500 (Inside Government)
- Scotland has appointed its first Space Envoy to identify business and investment opportunities that further the government’s aim for Scotland to become a leading space nation (Scottish Government)
- The Philippines has been urged by a former official to support unregistered online startups instead of closing them. The Bureau of Internal Revenue has threatened to suspend online businesses that have not registered with the government under the recently introduced Internet Transaction Act (Manila Standard)
Comment and analysis
- What entrepreneurs need to deliver economic growth (Philip Salter, founder, The Entrepreneurs Network)
- Mario Draghi’s plan to fix a broken Europe already looks impossible (Carlo Martuscelli, reporter, Politico)
- Protecting innovation: The need to keep politics out of startup funding (Maisha Islam Monamee, contributor, The Daily Star, Bangladesh)
Features
- La French Tech gears up to go in a new direction (TechCrunch)
- Meet Utah’s entrepreneur-in-residence (DeresetNews)
- From coal mines to startup labs - An African city’s remarkable tech transformation (CNBC Africa)
- Africa eyes a piece of the space pie (International Policy Digest)
GEN Atlas insights
The GEN Atlas is the world’s largest entrepreneurship policy compendium, featuring over 400 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:
- Policy deep dives: Employee share schemes | Startup visas | Youth entrepreneurship | Supporting ethnic minority entrepreneurs
- Country deep dives: South Africa | France | The Netherlands | Australia | Spain
- Atlas spotlights: Finance
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