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)
- The Aspen Institute is recruiting a director of global programs, a Washington, D.C.-based leadership team role to manage a global team implementing grant-funded projects (UNjobs)
News
- Czechia is introducing a new startup law to simplify employment conditions and reduce bureaucracy for startups. It will also consider allowing pension funds to invest in startups. (Prague Morning)
- South Korea has presented plans to stimulate technology commercialization, with a goal of fostering 500 deep tech research institute enterprises by 2030 (Chosun)
- Morocco has launched a new initiative to find and support the best industrial and technological cluster projects for 2025. The effort aims to promote governance structures that bring together companies, startups, research centers, and training institutions to collaborate on innovative projects that generate significant added value (Morocco World News)
Comment and analysis
- Digital pathways to entrepreneurship: New global data on business registration services (Ricardo Martins Maia, Lilya Bulgakova and Nurana Ahmadova, World Bank)
- Letter to the newly elected prime minister (Business Council of Canada)
- The missing entrepreneurs in India's startup story (G Kumar Naik, Indian Parliamentarian)
- Startup nation or shutdown nation? Israel's innovation crossroads (Vincent James Hooper, contributor, The Times of Israel)
- Countries don't have to build their own AI - just their place in it (Ayesha Bhatti, head of digital policy for UK and EU, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation)
- Why tax breaks on data centers could backfire on states (Andrew R Chow, correspondent, Time)
- Why Europe's "28th regime" could boost startups (Keyvan Hazemi-Jebelli, senior director for Europe, Chamber of Progress)
- Silicon diplomacy: How tech can revive America's oldest Asian alliance (Jennifer Ewbank, former deputy director for digital innovation, Central Intelligence Agency)
Features
- Mexico's fintech stars start to shine at last (FT)
- From tech pioneers to 'extremists': Belarusian founders face exile and statelessness (TechCrunch)
- "Hard work lies ahead": Canadian tech leaders strike urgent tone on policy asks following Liberal victory (Betakit)
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.