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A well-functioning market system helps attract high-tech investors from abroad and fosters high-technology startups at home.
When firms hit by reduced demand stop hiring for a time, some people who would have joined established firms use their situation to dream up new products or methods and organize startups to develop them.
More important, the accumulation of new startups will gradually generate rising investment demand – induced demand!
Small firms and startups must always struggle for credit, and the Great Recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis made it harder for them.
Some Greeks have formed startups, though not in Greece.
A handful of bioengineering startups and aid groups, such as Engineers Without Borders, have begun to tackle health-related problems in refugee communities.
At the moment, venture capital-backed startups are the standard mechanism for moving from “R” to “D.”
And, given the stellar valuations of some startups, it’s easy to assume that a healthy ecosystem of savvy companies and venture capital funding is all that is needed to ensure innovation.
Still, one has to worry that the big five tech firms have become so dominant, so profitable, and so encompassing that it has become very difficult for startups to challenge them, thereby stifling innovation.
Website startups may even want to check their users’ profiles on the Angel List database of angel investors, viewing them as a potential source of financing.
The successes of the region’s startups should not be underestimated.
According to Wamda, a regional accelerator platform, more than a dozen startups – including Bayt, Careem, MarkaVIP, Namshi, News Group, Propertyfinder, and Wadi.com – now have estimated valuations above $100 million.
Companies in these industries tend to be not only family-owned, but also large in size and heavy in capital investment, and they do not typically view startups as potential strategic business partners.
Even startups that make some initial headway struggle to scale up in the B2B sector.
MENA startups have achieved the most success online, where the large established players did not show early interest and barriers to entry, in terms of capital investment and market access, are relatively low.
The progress that such startups have managed to achieve highlights their potential to spearhead innovation and generate economic growth.
Specifically, governments should do more to leverage their spending to support new, innovative businesses, while established companies should open up their operations and cooperate with startups to scale up innovative activities that can inject dynamism into markets.
Startups are proven hubs of innovation and drivers of economic growth, employment, and development.
Make Your Own Silicon ValleySEATTLE – California may be the world’s largest and best-known technology hub, but it is not alone in fostering innovative startups.
Many international startups – including Sweden’s Spotify, Estonia’s Skype, Israel’s Waze – and, most recently, China’s Alibaba – have gained billion-dollar valuations.
Moreover, the university’s Startup Sauna seed-accelerator program helps promising early-stage startups take their first steps toward success.
Today, Finland boasts more than 200 gaming startups, which export 90% of their products.
In 2002-2009, more than 11,000 startups were established.
And numerous studies document continued implicit biases against women in hiring and promotion processes, triggering growing interest in Silicon Valley startups that use technology to mitigate such biases throughout their human-resources operations.
Forbes magazine reports that “hundreds of Israeli[s] and Palestinians are becoming actual business partners and colleagues in startups that are slowly transforming the Palestinian economy, at least in the West Bank.”
In fact, according to a new report by the London venture capital firm Atomico, European startups are now taking the lead in artificial intelligence, building new tech hubs, and drawing investment from traditional industrial stalwarts.
Europe’s “single digital market,” they argue, currently amounts “to a jumble of outdated, corporatist, counterproductive industrial policies that favor producers over consumers, big companies over small, traditional incumbents over digital startups, and EU firms over foreign ones.”
Unfortunately, the European Commission’s proposals are not focused on enabling Italians to buy from British websites or opening a market of 500 million Europeans to Spanish startups.
And it should throw its weight behind a genuine EU digital single market that benefits consumers and enables startups to flourish, instead of a backdoor industrial policy that favors Germany’s digital flops.
Elsewhere, Estonia is the third country in Europe in startups per person and has one of the fastest Internet speeds anywhere.
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