{"id":459750,"date":"2023-10-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=459750"},"modified":"2023-10-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T07:00:00","slug":"how-start-ups-are-drowning-in-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/how-start-ups-are-drowning-in-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How start-ups are drowning in bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In our Sunday newsletter, we, as editors, reflect on the past seven days. We do this on the initiative of our cartoonist <\/em>Albert Jan Rasker<\/em><\/a>. He chooses a subject, draws a picture, and we take it from there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Innovation Origins, we talk to start-ups every day. Efficient tools for weapons detection with AI, a foldable house, sensors that monitor medicine dosage: everything comes along<\/a>. At the Gerard & Anton Awards<\/a>, we gave the stage to 12 young tech companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pay a lot of attention to start-ups because we need start-ups. As Camilla van den Boom said so aptly during her keynote at the Level-Up event<\/a>, “There is not simply one question, one answer. There are many ways to find solutions; we need start-ups to address that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, eighty percent of start-ups fail. Ask any start-up founder about their biggest challeng9\/96e; the answer is guaranteed to be funding or the bureaucratic system. If it were up to Van den Boom, we have to move towards a system where young companies no longer – as Albert Jan Rasker so catchily depicts in his cartoon – drown in paperwork, rules, and bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because we are not there yet, Van den Boom developed a toolkit<\/a>, or “a code that gives start-ups the right direction,” as she describes it herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All start-up founders, hop to that toolkit! And to the rest us: we should think very hard about how we can make things easier for start-ups, for that will benefit everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what else caught our eye this week:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n