Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Policy in Korea, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany, 2024

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Policy Review (EEPR), 12(1) · January 2025

This report reviews the entrepreneurial ecosystem policy that the governments of Korea, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Germany set out from January to December 2024 in six domains — regulation and law, finance, culture, support, human capital and markets — and analyses it in its context, against theory and in practice. Finance was the centre of policy and culture the thinnest domain. The best measures let private investors choose the firms that public money followed, made venture law permanent, cut bookkeeping duties or opened routes for foreign founders; the worst raised or would raise the cost of a first hire, cut innovation and research appropriations or left reforms as bills and declarations. Governments changed in the United Kingdom, Japan and France, Germany’s coalition ended and Korea’s President was impeached, and much of the year’s policy was pending at its end.