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
- Malaysia has launched the ASEAN Startup Initiative in a bid to foster a dynamic and interconnected innovation ecosystem across the region (TNGlobal)
- Tanzania has pledged to review tax systems, create financial incentives and attract foreign investors in an effort to create amore conducive environment for youth-led startups (The Citizen)
- Bermuda is to develop a national entrepreneurship strategy to help identify strengths and weaknesses in it’s entrepreneurial landscape, mapping opportunities and addressing challenges (Royal Gazette)
- The United States has updated the International Entrepreneur Rule to make it easier for noncitizen entrepreneurs to apply for temporary residency to start businesses in the U.S. (TimesNowWorld)
- Canada’s chaotic budget this week featured key measures to boost AI adoption, reform federal procurement, reform capital gains and boost funding for black entrepreneurs (Betakit)
Research & publications
- Innovation diffusion: A practical handbook for implementing regional assessments
This OECD handbook introduces the concept of innovation diffusion and provides a guide to help policymakers in the EU and beyond to gain a view of the strengths and weaknesses of their regional innovation challenges and existing policy supports. - Improving business regulations to support productivity growth in Vietnam
This World Bank report assesses the implementation progress at the mid-term of Vietnam’s program to reform business regulations between 2020 and 2025.
Comment and analysis
- Eight ways the new U.S. administration can pursue a post-techlash agenda (David Moschella, nonresident senior fellow, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
- Reconciling tradition and innovation: Japan’s path to global AI leadership (Chiharu Nakayama, lead, data and artificial intelligence, World Economic Forum)#
- 5 reasons small businesses and startups are thriving in the Gulf (Tarek Sultan, vice chairman of the board, Agility)
- 2024 has shown the power of women in tech’s collective voice (Eleanor Kaye, executive director, Newton Venture Program)
- From Bengaluru to Boston: The global ascent of Indian AI startups in 2024 (Dr Nivash Jeevanandam, technology journalist)
Features
- Assam’s economic transformation: A beacon of industrial growth and development (Organiser)
- Rise of venture capital funds in Azerbaijan: New era for innovation and investment (Azernews)
- How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe (MIT Technology Review)
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.