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
- Entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Mark Cuban will headline the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, which returns to the U.S. for the first time in 15 years this summer. Join thousands of founders, investors, ecosystem builders and policymakers from 200 countries in Indianapolis, June 2-5 (GEN)
News
- Ghana's Digital Transformation Center will launch an "Entrepreneurship Policy Chatbot" to break down complex policies into user-friendly formats. The initiative, backed by the German Government, seeks to bridge the gap between policy and entrepreneurship, making regulatory information more accessible and relevant to business owners (The Africa Daily Post)
- Tasmania has signalled its intention to become "the startup capital of Australia" with the establishment of a single permit process for new startup small businesses as part of its red-tape-busting reform agenda (Tasmanian Government)
- Project Europe, a new early-stage fund has launched to back under-25-year-olds to build the next tech titan. The fund, backed by 150 leading European founders, will invest in "the next generation of technical builders with global ambitions" (TechCrunch)
- Nepal is the latest country to legally define what is a startup, to allow for more targeted support and finance provision to early-stage firms (Kathmandu Post)
Comment and analysis
- Seeding success? Evaluating the effectiveness of public support for high-potential businesses (Maria Brackin, James Phipps and Rob Fuller, Innovation Growth Lab)
- Japan used to be a tech leader. Here's how it can regain global standing (Fujiyo Ishiguro, chair of Japan and chief representative officer, World Economic Forum)
- When regulations hinder entrepreneurship, we all lose out. AI can help regulators do their job better - and get out of the way (John Nay, founder & CEO, Norm AI and and Troy A. Paredes, former commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
- On leadership: Why crafting great policy cannot be delegated (Tuulia Pitkanen, Kurt McLauchlan and Justin To, Tony Blair Institute)
- Startup accelerators fail founders too often (Paul O'Brien, author, Startup Economist)
Features
- Breaking barriers: Nepali female leaders driving change (DevPolicyBlog)
- Eight years, 100+ startups scaled: What Morgan Stanley's startup accelerator has learned (Sifted)
- Stanford students used to chase jobs at Meta and Google. Now they want to work on defense (The San Francisco Standard)
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.