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.
News
- United Arab Emirates' vice president and prime minister HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has unveiled an ambitious national campaign, "The UAE: The Startup Capital of the World", to strengthen the UAE's position as a leading global destination for entrepreneurship. The campaign aims to attract 10,000 entrepreneurs and create 30,000 jobs within five years (Emirates News Agency)
- Albania's prime minister Edi Rami has launched "Startup Albania", a platform to support entrepreneurship, innovation, and youth creativity, alongside a National Innovation Council to connect startups with the government (Albania Daily News)
- The Netherlands has launched a new action plan to strengthen the startup and scale-up ecosystem in the country. The plan includes extending the Techleap program, investing in the European Tech Champions Initiative, and setting up a national investment institution (IO+)
Comment and analysis
- Britain doesn't need a $1 trillion company; it needs a trillion-dollar system (Alistair Sackley, specialist policy officer, Web Science Institute, University of Southampton)
- Uzbekistan's emerging startup ecosystem: A rising global innovation platform (Shermatov Sherzod Xotamovich, minister of digital technologies of Uzbekistan)
- The unicorn: Why regulatory risk keeps destroying startup value and what to do about it (Eric Tanenblatt, global chair of public policy and regulation, Dentons)
- Corporate venturing squads: A novel way to scale innovation across borders (Julia Prats, Beatriz Camacho and Josemaria Siota, IESE Business School)
- Europe cannot afford to remain a spectator as the world moves rapidly into the era of advanced technologies (Prof Dr Cristina Vanberghen, Yerevan State University)
Research and publications
- Top 100 universities ranked for entrepreneurs
This PitchBook annual university ranking compares institutions by tallying the number of alumni entrepreneurs who have raised capital in the last decade. Additional lists focus on European universities and female founders. - Latin American Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index 2.0
This Information Technology & Innovation Foundation report ranks the innovation competitiveness of more than 200 regions across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States on 13 commonly available indicators and provides a comparative assessment of these regions' innovation performance.
Features
- How Cherie Blair aims to empower one million women entrepreneurs (Reuters)
- South Korea's 'Silicon Valley' strives to live up to its global ambitions (TechCrunch)
- Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home (Rest of World)
- From thoroughbreds to unicorns: How Britain's startup sector is evolving (CNBC)
GEN community news
- Malaysia's Cradle Fund - a member of GEN's Startup Nations policy community - is to host the Cradle LIVE! ASEAN Summit, November 3-5. Carrying the theme "Scaling startups beyond borders", the summit will convene 3,000 startups, investors and policymakers from all 10 ASEAN member states. Technode article | Event website
- The Global Entrepreneurship Network and Alibaba.com have joined forces for CoCreate Pitch, the world's leading product-driven startup competition. Applications remain open for the European event (taking place in London on November 14) until mid-October. Learn more and apply | View the digital media toolkit and create co-branded promotional graphics
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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.