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
- Ethiopia has unveiled an ambitious first draft of its startup ecosystem development policy for public consultation (Addis Insight)
- Singapore has allocated SG$440m ($333m) to boost its deep tech startup ecosystem, hoping the funds will lure more global venture capital firms to invest in its local community (ZDNet)
- Seven European countries have changed their laws to increase employee ownership in startups to rival the U.S. in attracting talent and investment, according to the latest 'Not Optional' report by Index Ventures (Yahoo!Finance)
- Singapore's digital economy made up nearly 18% of GDP and generated 208,300 jobs in 2023, according to a report by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (GovInsider)
- Ukraine has launched a regulatory sandbox for artificial intelligence and blockchain startups (Government of Ukraine)
Comment and analysis
- Malta 5.0 - A vision (Ian Gauci, managing partner, GTG)
- Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an 'EU Inc' has a rocky road ahead (Mike Butcher and Anna Heim, TechCrunch)
- US AI regulation: States take the lead (Hillary Brill, senior fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis)
- Investment in emerging Europe's fintech ecosystem: What next? (Marek Grzegorczyk, reporter, Emerging Europe)
- China is reshaping, not choking, private business (Hudson Lockett, Reuters)
Features
- How Cordoba champions open innovation in Argentina (GovInsider)
- Why female entrepreneurs are key to getting more women to work (BBC)
- From war-torn to tech-born: Bosnia's surprising startup revolution (Maddyness)
- Multipolar: The spread of Spain's innovation ecosystem (Forbes)
- 'We can create 100 million jobs in Africa by exporting talent' (African Business)
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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The opinions expressed in the articles above are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Global Entrepreneurship Network.