- Number of days to establish a business online
- Number of days to establish a business in the commercial registers
- Administrative costs for establishing a startup
- Existence of an online service to set up a company
- Existence of fast lane & helpdesk available for entrepreneurs
- Existence of a virtual helpdesk for regulatory issues for startups and scaleups
- Index of the cross-border services
- Utilisation of legal documents from other EU countries for startups within the single market
- Time to complete visa applications from founders - time & implementation level in %
- Time to complete visa applications for experienced workers
- Existence of return of tech diaspora programmes
- Index of talent attractiveness
- Stock Options taxed only as capital gains
- Existence of stock options with non-voting rights for startups
- Existence of a country-specific stock options scheme
- "Think Small First" principle implementation
- Existence of compliance exemptions/alternatives for startups
- Existence of Regulatory Sandboxes
- Number of established regulatory sandboxes - number & level of implementation in %
- Number of startups involved in regulatory sandboxes consortia - number & level of implementation in %
- Existence of administrative impediments of startup participation
- Existence of incentives for public buyers and procurement services to procure innovation from startups
- Possibility of ownership of IPR for startups in innovation procurement
- Intellectual property receipts as percentage of total trade
- Existence of exceptions for public sector IPR ownership based on overriding public interests
- Existence of startups actively supported and contributing with open-source assets
- Tech transfer policies
- Existence of RRF support for Venture Capital of startups
- Utilisation of EIB and promotional banks for VC investment gap bridging
- Adoption of initiatives to diversify private capital for high-growth startup co-investment
- Existence of tax relief for Business Angels
- Existence of national awards and policies for startup role models
- Existence of social inclusion mobilisation initiatives
- Existence of incentives for diversity hiring
- Support to founders from underprivileged backgrounds
- Existence of proactive engagement for digital knowledge sharing and best pratices
- Index of digital public services for business
- Digital public services availability by percentage of areas covered
- Existence of national digitalisation strategy implementation
