Amongst the Action Areas defined for the European Startup Nation Alliance (ESNA) is to start the process to support the development of the 8 Startup Nations Standards in all signatory countries from the Startup Nations Standard (SNS) declaration.

Previous to the actual realisation of this exercise, which first output is foreseen for 2023, it has been considered as a useful and necessary first step to undergo the development of a ‘baseline study’ for this scoreboard, identifying and compiling existing and comparable statistical sources which are relevant for the Standards on one side, and one the other highlighting gaps, whenever such sources could not be identified as a call for attention for future exercises.