entrepreneurship policy and research
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Global Entrepreneurship Week is GO! GO! GO!
In the #UK, we kicked off a week of events by opening the @LSEGplc markets with support of @endava alongside some of the most important #startup support organisations in the country!
genglobal.org/gew-events/698…
#gew2025 #togetherwebuild
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17 Nov 2025
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of @scaleupinst and the launch of the Scaleup Annual Review 2025, highlighting a record 44,595 scaleups and a further 20,980 in the pipeline #GEWUK #GEW2025 @GEWUK
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18 Mar 2025
Another one bites the (saw)dust
18 Mar 2025
There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus and endorsed by Britain's most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners.
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26 Nov 2024
Happy 50th birthday to @FSB_Voice @fsb_policy! Congrats to @craigie_b and colleagues for delivering grounded, reliable, and highly impactful advocacy and support to small businesses across the UK. Here’s to the next 50 years!
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13 May 2024
Ten years on, this letter still perfectly encapsulates the value of entrepreneurship, the hunger for innovation among consumers, and the entitlement of incumbents
13 May 2014
Damn all these entrepreneurs 'arrogantly' disrupting the marketplace and delivering what the customer wants...
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19 Jan 2024
A remarkably similar change is also taking place in Australia, with @cmack4life leading the fight against it:
startupdaily.net/advice/inve…
cc @hannahprevett @ChadRenando
18 Jan 2024
❌Bad news for women in the UK: On Jan 31 new legislation comes in increasing barriers to entry for women angel investors.
➡️Now: investors on angel investing platforms have to earn over £100k.
➡️Jan 31: new legislation raises it to £170k.
😡Issue: This will disproportionally impact the size of the pool of female investors in the UK & founders. Less female angels to invest in female founders, who because they only get 2% of VC money, rely heavily on angel funding.
🤯Unfathomable decision that needs urgent reversing pls @KemiBadenoch
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15 Jan 2024
Sad and unexpected news. As for many in the entrepreneurship education field, Kate was the first person to welcome me into the @EEUK community 16 years ago. She was a bedrock of the ecosystem and loved by all.
15 Jan 2024
Some very sad news this morning.
Our deepest condolences to Kate's family from all at EEUK. She will be greatly missed.
enterprise.ac.uk/kate-beresf…
ALT Kate Beresford
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Matt Smith retweeted
22 Nov 2023
What's in the Autumn Statement for Tech Startups. Headline: It's pretty good. Here's a thread of what to look at.... 🧵
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13 Nov 2023
✈️ From Britain to Bilbao! Glad to be putting the ‘global’ in Global Entrepreneurship Week. Looking forward to participating in the EU SME Assembly over the coming days #GEW2023
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13 Nov 2023
It’s the 16th Global Entrepreneurship Week and, with the history of UK Enterprise Week, the 20th overall campaign.
This week ( wider month) there’s 100s of brilliant events including ones by @TheGENUK @TenThinkTank @scaleupinst @EntrepreneursGB @CfEntrepreneurs & @enttruth
12 Nov 2023
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2023 is officially underway! Watch the annual opening address from movement co-founder and GEN president Jonathan Ortmans.
youtube.com/watch?v=J8_t9kgn…
#GEW2023 #EntrepreneursThriveHere
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13 Nov 2023
Great to have minister for enterprise, markets and small business @kevinhollinrake join us @HSBCInnovation to formally open Global Entrepreneurship Week in the UK
#GEW2023 @TheGENUK
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Matt Smith retweeted
21 Jun 2023
Great to see @TheGENUK leading a conversation on refugee entrepreneurship as part of Refugee Week. Entrepreneurship not only offers new opportunities to people forced from their homelands, but brings new thinking and potential to local ecosystems. worldlabs.org/opportunity/re…
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16 Jun 2023
An action-packed and inspiring week @LDNTechWeek & @thenextweb helping launch the @unleashingideas @startupgenome #GSER2023, connecting with global policymakers, and celebrating the strength of European tech!
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13 Jun 2023
Great to see Stephan Kuester of @startupgenome share sneak peek of the #GSER2023 findings at @LTDTechWeek #LTW2022
Sign up to receive the report on launch day (Thursday): bit.ly/GSERGEN2023
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9 Jun 2023
The Startup State Issue #12 is live! This week in entrepreneurship policy and research: insights from @londonpartners @atomico @UNCTAD @techUK, op-eds from @MardaMustapha @cmschroed @jeffseedrs @Fiona_MIT @GaniuOloruntade, and more.
genglobal.org/policy-researc…
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24 May 2023
Thanks to @ST_Prodem @ProDemUNGS @HugoKantis for inviting me to Bogotá for PRODEM - a fantastic gathering of LatAm entrepreneurship academics, agencies, policymakers and others.
24 May 2023
Paola Andrea Franco (Fondo Impacta) conversa sobre Incubación y aceleración en contexto con Matt Smith de Global Entrepreneurship Network.
@PaFranco2
@UniversidadEan
@mattTP
@unleashingideas
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18 May 2023
Aaaaand we’re off! The most fun of the UK business awards - @TheSmallAwards Delighted to be a judge for <however many years, I forget>. Hosted by the ever wonderful @sueperkins and small business champion Michelle Ovens
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24 Mar 2023
For anyone who used to enjoy my @CfEntrepreneurs Week in Entrepreneurship newsletters, I've now started a new more globally-minded weekly bulletin for @unleashingideas called: The Startup State
Take a look! genglobal.org/research/start…
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13 Mar 2023
Great to join @michelledonelan @Dom_Hallas @DanielKorski and the wider startup community to celebrate the massive efforts and achievements over the last few days to secure the survival of the UK’s entrepreneurship ecosystem in the face of potentially cataclysmic events
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