As another Global Entrepreneurship Week comes to an end, entrepreneurship policy shapers are gathering in Tallinn, Estonia for the sixth Startup Nations Summit (SNS). SNS is a platform that identifies uncommon solutions for regulatory challenges and other policies that can accelerate the creation of new businesses.
Over the past year, innovative policy-making processes emerged in response to entrepreneurial disruptions that changed the way we think about regulation. For example, regulatory sandboxes are being adopted across the world as a way to reduce risk for both regulators and startups (see some examples on SNAP). As an innovative approach to policymaking, regulatory sandboxes will be a key topic to deep-dive at SNS.
Policy leaders will also brainstorm solutions through the Lean Policy Canvas as they tackle policy-related frustrations expressed by entrepreneurs. As the name suggests, the Lean Policy Canvas enables rapid policy development—much like startups do in actual entrepreneurial practice.
We will hear newly designed solutions related to pressing topics like data privacy policy implications for startups, universal basic income to boost entrepreneurship, and new forms of digital solutions to remove red tape.
Finally, policymakers will hack entirely new solutions through the SNS Policy Hack. Team leaders will bring challenges to teams formed by actors from across the entrepreneurial ecosystem spectrum, working through policy hacks these actors can return home ready to actually test.