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The Global Startup
Ecosystem Report
GSER 2020
The New Normal for the Global Startup
Economy and the Impact of COVID-19
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Table of Contents
3 About Startup Genome and Global
Entrepreneurship Network
4 Our Global Network
5 About Our Global Partners
12 Startup Genome Advisory Board
14 State of the Global Startup
Economy
26 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking
(Top 30 + Runners-up)
42 Top 100 Emerging Ecosystem
Ranking
49 Save Your Startups: Using Policy to
Kickstart the Post-Crisis Economy
57 The Meteoric Rise of Seoul’s
Startup Ecosystem
59 Understanding Your Startup Eco-
system Lifecycle
67 Ecosystem Deep Dives by Lifecycle
68 Activation Phase
70 Atlantic Canada, CA
72 Bahrain, BH
74 Belgrade and Novi Sad, RS
76 Busan, KR
78 Cairo, EG
80 Calgary, CA
82 Curitiba, BR
84 Edmonton, CA
86 Frankfurt, DE
88 Georgia, GE
90 Ireland Mid-East Region, IE
92 Kampala, UG
94 Manila, PH
96 New Zealand, NZ
98 Nur-Sultan, KZ
100 Québec City, CA
102 Sharjah, AE
104 Sri Lanka, SR
106 Taipei City, TW
108 Telangana, IN
110 Western Denmark, DK
112 Early-Globalization Phase
115 Copenhagen, DK
117 Greater Helsinki, FI
119 Kuala Lumpur, MY
121 Melbourne, AU
123 Montréal, CA
125 Rhineland, DE
127 Late-Globalization Phase
128 Austin, US
130 Chicago, US
132 Miami, US
134 Toronto-Waterloo, CA
136 Washington, D.C., US
138 Attraction and Integration Phase
140 Amsterdam-Delta, NL
142 Beijing, CN
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