Youth unemployment remains a major challenge of the Tunisian economy. Lack of access to decent jobs represents a major difficulty particularly for Tunisian graduates. In order to foster socio-economic development as well as creating sustainable job creation it is necessary to strengthen the private sector and facilitate the creation of new enterprises. However, starting a business requires as much financial and managerial knowledge as it doestechnologicalandmarket expertise.While many Tunisians have technical skills, they lack entrepreneurial skills. In order to address these challenges this policy briefs suggests investing in the creation of innovation laboratories and co-working spaces as well as designing a new legal framework that can facilitate entrepreneurial procedures.
