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
- Tanzania has kicked off consultations for its first startup policy, after years of advocacy from entrepreneurs and stakeholders (The Citizen)
- Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has launched a national policy for sustainable innovation, which aims to transform Egypt into an innovative and sustainable knowledge society (University World News)
- Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli announced that the government will provide startup loan assistance to at least 500 young entrepreneurs this year (Radio Nepal Online)
Comment and analysis
- World-leaders in unicorn production per-capita: Size is not a determining factor in ecosystem success (Forrest Wright, research assessment lead, Startup Genome)
- What America can learn from China about big tech (Hilal Aka, policy analyst, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
- The diversity blindspot in Project Europe's VC movement (Sophie Winwood, co-founder and CEO, Unlock VC)
- I've felt nothing but unease since yesterdays launch of Project Europe (Nicolas Colin, publisher, Drift Signal)
- The long haul: Can UK startups seize the AI opportunity? (Trevor Clawson, contributor, Forbes)
- Nurturing thriving entrepreneurship ecosystems and startup hubs (Gianna Pinasco, senior program manager, Metta)
Features
- Tech startups all the buzz, but many young Chinese prefer stable government jobs (South China Morning Post)
- Strasbourg: An entrepreneurial ecosystem that focuses on the collective (Maddyness - in French)
- An army of startups to shore up Ukraine's defense (El Pais)
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.