Government & Ecosystems
Designing Incubators and Accelerators That Don’t Become Real-Estate Plays
Why public incubators drift into landlord economics, what research says about accelerator designs that work, and a design brief funded on outcomes.
HexGn Insights
Notes from the corridor
Research, rankings and field notes on startups, innovation and the India–Gulf growth corridor.
Government & Ecosystems
Future-Ready Talent: Designing National Skills Programs for an Entrepreneurial, AI-Enabled Economy
What labour-market evidence says about skills programs that place learners, how AI changes the target, and a design brief for future-skills programs.
Central Asia
Central Asia’s Entrepreneurship Moment: A Five-Country Map for Governments and Investors
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as entrepreneurship economies: demographics, reforms, institutions, capital and what.
Central Asia
Kazakhstan’s Startup-Nation Bet: Astana Hub, the AIFC and the Kaspi Effect
Kazakhstan built Central Asia's deepest institutional stack for founders. Why its pipeline lags its institutions, and what a government program should do.
Central Asia
Financing Central Asian Founders: From Microfinance to Venture
Why Central Asia's founders rely on family money and expensive debt, what the evidence says about grants, microcredit and public venture capital,…
Central Asia
Women Entrepreneurs in Central Asia: The Evidence, the Barriers and the Programs That Work
Women run much of Central Asia's small-business economy and appear in few startup statistics. The evidence on what works, the regional barriers,…
Central Asia
Universities, Youth and the Campus Pipeline in Central Asia
Central Asia's universities are multiplying and its population is young. What campuses can do for entrepreneurship, and how to build a pipeline…
Central Asia
The Middle Corridor and the Gulf–India–Central Asia Triangle: Trade Routes, Capital and Market Entry
The Trans-Caspian route, Gulf capital and India's links form a Gulf–India–Central Asia triangle. A map of routes, frictions, and how founders and.
Central Asia
Designing National Founder Programs for Central Asia: What Transfers from Israel, Estonia, the Gulf and India
Which instruments transfer to Central Asia from Israel, Estonia, the Gulf and India, the sequence that works, and a 36-month plan a…
Central Asia
Entrepreneurship in Remittance Economies: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
Two mountain economies where remittances reach half of GDP: what money sent home does to enterprise, and how to turn it into…