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
- Global Entrepreneurship Network is recruiting! Join us as Community Manager and help us build and manage relationships with entrepreneurship organizations globally! (GEN)
- PRODEM and Global Entrepreneurship Network have launched the 2024 Index of Dynamic Entrepreneurship. The report evaluates and ranks the conditions for ‘dynamic entrepreneurship’ – startups and young firms with growth potential – across 50 countries. (GEN)
News
- The United Kingdom has pledged to make the state “more like a startup” as it launches a $127m scheme to pioneer public service reform through funding teams to use “test and learn culture”. Tech workers will be encouraged to join government for 6-12 month “tours of duty” as part of the initiative (UK Government)
- South Korea’s Ministry of Startups and SMEs announced a $10.6bn budget for 2025 and identified four core investment priorities for the year ahead, including fostering deep tech startups, supporting exporting SMEs, promoting regional innovative growth, and establishing a growth ladder for SMEs (Korea Tech Desk)
- European startup associations are calling upon the freshly appointed European Commission to implement a series of measures - inspired by the French ‘Tibi’ initiative - to encourage institutional investors like pension funds and insurance companies to invest more in VC funds (Sifted)
- Malaysia has launched a national AI office aimed at shaping policies and addressing regulatory issues, as it looks to establish itself as a regional hub for AI development (Reuters)
- Liberia’s president Joseph Boakai has called for national economic transformation through grassroots entrepreneurship. At a three-day conference titled ‘From vision to implementation - Think Liberia, Buy Liberia, Build Liberia - A pathway to national prosperity’, the government announced major new initiatives to provide technical resources and funding to SMEs and youth entrepreneurs (Liberian Observer)
- Australia has replaced its global talent visa with an invitation-only national innovation visa. The new visa is focused on attracting individuals with internationally recognized achievements in critical areas including advanced robotics, clean energy and quantum computing (SmartCompany)
Comment and analysis
- The tech investment playbook for victory (Brian Maccarthy, senior vice president, Booz Allen and managing partner, Booz Allen Ventures)
- Unlocking America’s deep tech potential: The case for federal investment in science entrepreneurs (Cyrus Wadia, CEO, Activate)
- Four emerging trends from India’s booming entrepreneur ecosystem (Sreevas Sahasranamam, Professor, University of Glasgow)
Features
- Elon Musk vs Stephen Miller: Washington preps for battle on high-tech immigration (Politico US)
- IT sector in focus: Kosovo (Emerging Europe)
- Digital assets power Bhutan’s national development (GovInsider)
- How India’s Gen Z is finding its way in the startup ecosystem (The Hindu)
- Inside Britain’s plan to save the world from runaway AI (Politico EU)
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.