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IN RECENT YEARS, STARTUPS AND FAST-GROWING TECH COMPANIES ARE VITAL TO A CITY’S ECONOMY. AROUND THE WORLD, WE FIND OURSELVES IN AN ECONOMY IN TRANSITION, ONE THAT OFFERS OPPORTUNITY TO ENTREPRENEURS, THINKERS, AND INVENTORS WHO ARE HARD AT WORK ON NEW FORMS OF TECHNOLOGY, PRODUCTS, AND INNOVATIONS THAT MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER. INCREASINGLY, IT IS CITY GOVERNMENT THAT MUST PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN HELPING THEM ALL FLOURISH LOCALLY. TO DO THAT, THE GOVERNMENT MUST EMBRACE A STARTUP MINDSET OF ITS OWN, FUNCTIONING AS A DYNAMIC AND ‘ROUND-THE-CLOCK ENTERPRISE THAT MATCHES THE RAPID PACE OF BUSINESS TODAY.

STARTUPCITY IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE ADMINISTRATORS, CIVIL SERVANTS AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE INITIATIVES THE GUIDANCE ON HOW THEY CAN THINK AND WORK AS A STARTUP. IT GIVES A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT HOW THE PUBLIC SECTOR CAN ENGAGE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO FORM INITIATIVES THAT BOOST THE STARTUP WORLD’S ECOSYSTEM AND NURTURE THE CITY AS A BREEDING GROUND FOR INNOVATION AND JOB GROWTH. BAS BEEKMAN AND RUBEN NIEUWENHUIS—THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LEAD OF THE STARTUPAMSTERDAM ACTION PROGRAMME—SHOW THROUGH CONCRETE LESSONS, CASES, AND BEST PRACTISES HOW EVERY CITY IN THE WORLD CAN GROW INTO A STARTUPCITY.

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BAS BEEKMAN

RUBEN NIEUWENHUIS

Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam

KAJSA OLLONGREN

“Tell me, why should Amsterdam not act to push the startup scene, when we see other city governments play an important role to activate and grow their local ecosystems —like in Dublin, London and Paris?”

CITY AS A SERVICE

• modern digital infrastructure

• English-speaking inhabitants

• strong universities and colleges

• open culture • enough housing and

work accommodation

• variety in culture • use of technology and

new models in the era of sharing economy

LOOK AT EVERY PLAYER IN THE ECOSYSTEM AS A BUSINESS

HELLO, SKEPTICS!Why even pay attention to startups, anyway? What was our

exact business case? Why not fully focus on scale-ups?

PIVOT, GROWTH HACKING, SERIES A, PRE-SEED, FORTRESS, DRAG & TAG ALONG, VENTURE DEBT

Public organizations and civil servants who want to be part of the startup ecosystem must learn this new language

WHAT IS STARTUP ECOSYSTEM? “When you and the stakeholders start to work together—as a system—it’s much easier to present your StartupCity internationally and try to

attract interesting companies to strengthen your ecosystem. The startup ecosystem in your city is a part of the startup ecosystem in your country.

That can truly flourish, only when the individual cities are well connected. Only when you open your ecosystem is when it can grow.”

AMERICAN VS EUROPEAN STARTUP SYSTEMS

The earliest startup ecosystems were born in two American hotspots: Silicon Valley between San Jose and San Francisco and MIT, over the Charles River from Boston.

Historically, ecosystems in America tended to be ‘run by’ entrepreneurs. There is little government involvement. European policy makers, on the other hand, have been

influenced by academic theories that propagate a holistic view on entrepreneurship based on broader systems and networks rather than industry-specific interventions.

EUROPEAN STARTUP ECOSYSTEM…investors, top talent and multinational companies are attracted

to places of growth and concentration.

MARIANA MAZZUCATO

Professor in Economics of Innovation, Sussex University

“THE SLUGGISH STATE IMPEDES

INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP”“Пассивні та повільні уряди гальмують

інновації та підприємництво”

Daniel Isenberg professor of

Entrepreneurship Practice at Babson College

“government should facilitate sustainable, growth-oriented, and innovative firms by removing obstacles to their growth with good policy”

http://bit.ly/babson-entrepreneurship

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erate a big win early on. This is the opportunity for local success stories who in turn can become role models for other startups. One big success is enough to ignite the imagination of ambitious entrepreneurs to follow in the footsteps of a local hero. Government should be bold in promoting those success stories: celebrate local enterprises publicly in speeches and during award events, under the spotlight they deserve. You will see these measures engrained in our action programme, and hopefully you can im-plement them in yours.

Another interesting study study done for the OECD13 proposes four aspects of the entrepreneurial ecosystem that can be targeted by policy makers, both national and regional. These are: 1) entrepreneurial actors within ecosystem, 2) entrepreneurial resource providers within ecosys-tems, 3) entrepreneurial connectors within ecosystems, and 4) entrepre-neurial orientation with ecosystems.

Where the Netherlands is concerned, a 2014 report by the Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid14 gave us insight on how govern-ment policies can affect innovation and growth factors on a national and regional scale. The primary role of the government is to eliminate certain holdups which slow down entrepreneurs in their ambitions. The report defined a few key aspects.

First, there are macro-economic circumstances, the so-called frame-work conditions, like a well-organised labour market, educational system and financial institutions. They are important, but framework conditions are not the main concern of local governments. We can signal the bot-tlenecks that early stage companies come across on their path to success, but often there is not much we can do about it other then try to lobby for better regulations on a national level.

Of much more relevance to city officials, then, is the main conclusion in this report: too few ‘promising starters’ (groeibriljanten in Dutch, liter-ally, growing gemstones) that show the exponential growth necessary to become a scale-up. They blame a less-than-optimal startup ecosystem in the Netherlands. Improving that ecosystem should therefore be on the policy agenda of (local) government. However, this involves a transition from ‘transaction-based’ and reactive law- and policy-making to a ‘rela-tion-based’ and proactive attitude to reach out to the startup community. The latter means having close collaboration with stakeholders and a coor-

dinating role to align policies, plans and budgets. This supports economic development on the local, national and European level. Research also shows that some of these benevolent measures do not correspond to the needs of startups. Government can support entrepreneurial ecosystems by developing instruments that have a quick, flexible and efficient prac-tice. Coordination, collaboration and activation are the key components of governmental interaction within an entrepreneurial ecosystem.

As a result, we are witnessing over the last 20 years a renewed inter-est and increased policymaking for entrepreneurial ecosystems. There is a gradual shift from traditional enterprise policies to governmental activities that promote growth-oriented entrepreneurship (that is, iden-tifiable types of business activities that combine innovation with extraor-dinary growth in both revenues and employment). Today, policy maker- s in most developed countries focused on high growth firms because they are thought to be the new engines for innovation, job creation and productivity growth.

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