Author: Eileen Trenkmann

Partnership (PPP) law has been enacted, with an overall 
contribution by the government of 30%. However, the law 
has not unfolded its full potential, as according to a 
government official, the public funding of 30% is too low to 
encourage private sector investments. 
Other business associations such as the Business Women’s 
Association, the Young Farmers Union or the Council of 
Farmers, Dekhkan Farms and Owners of Homestead Lands 
of Uzbekistan play little role in the startup field as they 
mostly support livelihood and small-scale entrepreneurship.
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As highlighted earlier, inter-governmental cooperation 
between those ministries and departments entrusted 
with startup promotion remains weak. There is 
currently no evidence-based and coordinated strategy of 
the government to support entrepreneurship. 
Subordinate government-owned support organisations 
work in silos or with other line organisations directly 
reporting to their respective ministry. For instance, the 
IT Park and the Inha University under the control of the 
Ministry for the Development of Information 
Technologies and Communications, are thus mandated 
to cooperate with each other. While a stakeholder 
mentioned that they invite representatives from other 
ministries to their events, cooperation in real terms is 
de facto absent. 
On the bright side, ecosystem events such as the 
Technovation Challenge see the participation of several 
ecosystem actors such as the Ministry of Innovative 
Development along with the Center for Advanced 
Technologies, the Union of Youth and the consortium of 
Brand.uz, StartupFactory.uz and Green Business 
Innovation. There is a good cooperation especially 
between the Center for Advanced Technologies and 
private 
organisations 
such 
as 
Brand.uz, 
StartupFactory.uz and Green Business Innovation (soon 
Tech4Impact). In addition, depending on support from
international and public actors, private actors such as 
Brand.uz, StartupFactory.uz and Green Business 
Innovation are most active in cooperating with a variety 
of stakeholders.
With the opening of the economy, the government of 
Uzbekistan is actively reaching out internationally for 
support and has developed and set-up various facilities and 
Memoranda of Understandings (MoU) with international