Government & Ecosystems
What Governments Actually Buy When They Buy an Entrepreneurship Program
What governments really buy when they commission a founder program: the evidence on selection, training and grants, and a tender that buys…
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startup ecosystem
Government & Ecosystems
Measuring an Innovation Ecosystem: KPIs That Survive an Audit
How to measure a startup ecosystem so the numbers survive an audit: a logic model, the time-to-signal problem, what global indices capture,…
Government & Ecosystems
Investment Promotion in the Startup Age: How Agencies Win Founders, Funds and Capability Centres
Investment promotion has moved from factories to talent, funds and capability centres: the evidence on IPAs and a playbook for winning the…
Government & Ecosystems
The India–Gulf Innovation Corridor: A Two-Way Map for Founders and Governments
A two-way map of the India–Gulf corridor: trade, capital, talent, founders, research and government lanes, the frictions, and programs that activate it.
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.
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
Uzbekistan’s Opening: IT Park, Reform and the Region’s Fastest-Growing Founder Pipeline
How Uzbekistan went from the region's most closed economy to its most dynamic: reform sequence, IT Park, a million coders, a campus…
Central Asia
The 2022 Tech Migration: How Relocating Talent Reshaped Central Asia’s Ecosystems
Hundreds of thousands of Russians, many in tech, reached Central Asia after 2022. What migrant talent does for innovation, what stayed, and…
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…