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
- Taiwan has announced a $301m AI investment plan to expand Taiwan's digital economy and pave the way for AI to become a trillion-dollar industry. The plan focuses on five crucial areas - funding, talent, computing power, data, and marketing (Asia Tech Daily)
- Malaysia's big state-linked funds will commit $27bn over five years to local startups and venture capital firms to boost the domestic economy. Pension fund Employees Provident Fund, sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad, and investment firm Permodalan Nasional Berhad collectively manage $382bn (KrAsia)
- Uganda has proposed to exempt startups from income tax for three years to help drive economic growth and development (Monitor)
Comment, reports and analysis
- Time for growth: The plan Auckland needs to be a global tech hub (Auckland Business Chamber)
- The NSW innovation blueprint is finally here - and now the government needs to act (Simon Thomsen, editor, Startup Daily writing on the NSW innovation blueprint)
- Funding not fairy tales: Why the NSW innovation blueprint is a pile of magic beans (Jennifer Harrison, director, startups and scaleups, Reputation Edge)
- East Asia is challenging Silicon Valley - by being like Silicon Valley used to be (Robyn Klinger-Vidra, vice dean, global engagement professor in political economy and entrepreneurship, King's College London)
- Belgian startups, immigration, and why your definition of innovation is wrong (Paul O'Brien, author, Startup Economist)
- Where business incubators started, and what's next (Christopher Wink, co-founder and CEO, Technicaly.ly)
- We must liberate our brilliant entrepreneurs to stop this disastrous economic stall (Phil Kwok, CEO and co-founder, EasyA)
Features
- Talent factories: Unicorn flywheel boosts European startup creation (Forbes)
- The former ministers who joined French Tech (Maddyness - in French)
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.