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
- 500 UK entrepreneurs have warned the government that increases to capital gains tax could ‘jeopardize’ the country’s tech sector (Sifted)
- European entrepreneurs and investors have launched ‘EU Inc.’ - an initiative calling for the creation of a single pan-European startup entity (tech.eu)
Research
- A vision for the WTOs Global Digital Trade Rules
This Mercatus Center policy brief sets out three things that WTO members can do to create an environment for robust digital regulation and maximize the opportunities of the digital economy. - Capital issues: Reforming the UK’s capital markets to boost science and tech
This Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Onward report sets out bold reform of UK capital markets to keep pace with the global race to discover and bring ot market the innovations of the future.
Comment and analysis
- Ten years of FCA innovation: Impact and opportunity (Jessica Rusu, chief data, information and intelligence officer, Financial Conduct Authority, UK)
- Silicon Valley takes artificial general intelligence seriously - Washington must too (Daniel Colson, executive director, AI Policy Institute)
- Decoding India’s startup ecosystem (Krishnapriya VS, doctoral candidate, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala)
- Hispanic entrepreneurship is at the forefront of the American business boom (Mindy Brissey, regional administrator, Small Business Administration)
- How digital nomads can transform tourism and the economy of small island developing states (Pedro Lopes, secretary of state for digital economy, Government of Cape Verde)
Features
- Ethiopian venture capital firms hopeful on deregulation (African Business)
- In data: The UK’s top 200 women-powered businesses (Sifted)
- How the Tech Council of Delaware is supporting the state’s tech ecosystem (Technical.ly)
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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