Policy, promotion, positioning: how governments play an important role in the global startup race
As shown at the Mobile World Congress, governments can promote their startups at international forums, drive innovation through entrepreneur-friendly policies, and fund quantum-leap innovations.
- In the earlier 305 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery, world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.
- section).As the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) shows, the host city Barcelona is also riding the wave of emerging technologies by teaming up with global industry associations, hosting multi-lateral conferences, promoting smart city testbeds, and showcasing their startups at international forums.
- It promotes business contact between startups, investors, corporate accelerators, and government agencies via networking, knowledge-sharing, pitches, jobs, matchmaking, and awards.
- In our final photo essay on MWC 2019, we showcase some of the country pavilions, accelerators, and startups, with insights on successful partnerships coming up next.