The G20 Youth Entrepreneur Summit (YES) and McKinsey have released a report on realizing the socioeconomic potential of entrepreneurs in the 21^st century.

The report sets forth agendas for 1) shaping fertile ecosystems, 2) financing entrepreneurship from inception to critical size, and 3) promoting an entrepreneurial culture, based on an analysis of more than 200 entrepreneurship support initiatives by governments, national agencies, local public-sector players, professional organizations, companies or foundations.

The 10 actions prescribed here echo those laid forth in the Young Global Leaders Forum and Booz & Co. report that was just released, co-authored by Wamda’s CEO Habib Haddad, which addresses many of these points from the perspective of the Middle East & North Africa specifically.

Download the report below. The suggested actions are:

Shaping fertile ecosystems:

1. Build strong local bases anchored in regional development initiatives, encouraging entrepreneurs, local authorities, large companies, public and private education systems, to devise and implement synergetic strategies that build on a common ambition, sense of purpose and talent pool.

2. Leverage a relevant talent pool through a better alignment between the skills requirement of the local economic fabric and the education offering (primary and secondary education, vocational training, higher education, lifelong training).

3. Foster collaboration among key actors through appropriate incentives by entrusting universities with the mission of applied industrial research, promoting the exchange of talents among academia, research and business or encouraging cooperation between established and entrepreneurial companies.

4. Provide enabling infrastructures, especially by fostering public/private schemes to develop common local infrastructures (R&D centers, transportation, voice and data communication, etc.).

5. Ensure a stable, simple and conducive regulatory environment at a regional / supranational level to give undistorted access to larger markets while providing the opportunity to achieve critical size quickly.

6. Offer targeted tax incentives to promote business creation and development as well as innovation.

Financing entrepreneurship from inception to critical size:

7. Ensure the availability of financing for each stage of enterprise development and support the development of domestic or regional equity markets dedicated to high- potential SMEs, in order to support the growth of entrepreneurial ventures and break the ‘glass ceiling’ that hinders their development.

8. Develop specific solutions for high risk / low qualified entrepreneur profiles to help fight poverty, long-term unemployment and social divides in both emerging and mature economies.

Promoting an entrepreneurial culture:

9. Foster the development of targeted educational programs, on a national or international level, to boost the attractiveness of entrepreneurship and endow the population with the entrepreneurial mindset.

10. Support proactive promotion of entrepreneurship through associations, TV entrepreneurial contests, and global entrepreneurial business-plan competitions