01 [On the Potential for Public-Private-Partnerships in Achieving the SDGs]

The two biggest shifts that are needed for the SDGs are to orient entrepreneurship and investment towards the environment and society, not just the economy, by moving from entrepreneurship to social entrepreneurship and from investment to impact investment.

03 [On Private Sector Involvement]

The panel agreed that a good partnership needs to exist between the public and the private sectors or they will be competitors. Changes in patent law and legislation on intellectual property rights need to be implemented to encourage a more innovator-friendly ecosystem, which would not only incentivize innovators to carry on with their work, but also encourage social venture and have more mainstream investors invest in the concept of ‘doing well’ while ‘doing good’.

05 [On International Involvement]

The government can play a central role in pushing forward entrepreneurship policies in many different aspects such as: density, talent, education, culture and assuming risk of failure of startups. It is important that the government sees where people are meeting, where ideas are being created, what and where the co-working spaces are, who is supporting them, while also ensure young startups from other countries to receive talent visas and support in a given country. They need to set up an education system to get young people ready for what it actually means to be an entrepreneur and promote work with universities, speak about social entrepreneurship, and share in the financial risk-taking of young startups, especially for the least developed countries in the region who have nowhere to turn to for funding.

02 [On Youth Entrepreneurship]

To continuously address the issues startups are attempting to solve, R&D and connecting startup work to policies are vital steps in providing the necessary momentum for other people to join their efforts. Concerns were raised with regards to contact points and funding: there is a call for (1) more networking centers to be created to connect startups and (2) more balanced funding.

04 [On Public Sector Involvemen]

Considerations are also being made to incorporate ‘next step support’ into policies to deal with the current replication of startup goods by the public sector. As such, there is a need to protect startups by (1) purchasing their products, (2) ‘paying-asyou-go’ to the business, (3) offering ‘social impact bonds’ which pay startups with added incentives when they achieve set goals.

06 [On Missing Data and Value Chains]

The greater availability of data is essential to better advise governments on the challenges startups face. The UN needs look at the whole value chain of activities and be the convener that brings stakeholders together and sets up an alliance of youth empowerment enablers. The emphasis must be on alliance-building rather than specific intervention for the whole ecosystem to come together.

01 [On the Potential for Youth, Innovation and Entrepreneurship]

03 [On the Economic Potential of Youth]

05 [On Impact Investing and Profit]

07 [On Public-Private Partnerships Strategies]

09 [On Private Sector Impact Investment]

02 [Addressing Skepticism on Resolving the SDGs on Time]

04 [On Social Entrepreneurship in the Political Sphere]

06 [On the Integration of technologies for Smart Cities]

08 [On Youth Motivations in Driving the Impact Industry and Contributing to Sustainable Development]