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Founded in 2019, Driver's Seat Cooperative is a driver-owned data cooperative where gig and rideshare drivers pool trip data for shared analytics; …
Vietnam's ICT ministry curates and promotes vetted digital-management, cybersecurity and e-commerce platforms for small firms; by October 2024 over 401,000 SMEs were …
Launched March 2024, Dakar's 18.3km BRT runs 144 electric buses between Dakar and Guédiawaye, targeting 300,000 daily passengers and cutting the journey …
Since 2016, Kigali has closed major roads to traffic every first and third Sunday for community fitness and free NCD screening. Continuous …
In 2005 Hamburg became the first German state with a legal Business Improvement District framework. Property and business owners have since voted …
Launched in 2018 as Europe's first 'virtual' IT park, Moldova IT Park replaces all corporate and payroll taxes with one 7% turnover …
After Philips and DAF cut thousands of jobs in the early 1990s, Eindhoven's government, industry and university leaders built a formal triple-helix …
Gabon's first special economic zone at Nkok has grown to 144 companies from 16 countries since 2010, anchoring a shift from oil …
A Science-published RCT in Lomé assigned 1,500 microfinance clients to psychology-based 'personal initiative' training, traditional business training, or no training; initiative training …
Denmark's seven GTS institutes are non-profit bodies under multi-year government performance contracts to diffuse applied technological knowledge to Danish firms; in 2024 …
iNNpulsa Colombia's ZASCA reindustrialisation centres and ALDEA network reached over 20,000 micro and small businesses in 2024. Medellín's first ZASCA cohort raised …
Since 2014, Malawi's donor-backed Innovation Challenge Fund has matched over 50 private firms' innovation costs, helping create more than 2,000 jobs and …
Tunisia's 2018 Startup Act created a dedicated legal status waiving payroll and profit taxes and easing customs/forex rules for labelled firms. By …
Brazil's Embrapa runs a formal four-phase technology-transfer and impact-assessment pipeline for its agricultural research. Its 2021 evaluation of 152 projects found R$18 …
Since 1975, the Philippines' DOST has brought home nearly 700 Filipino scientists for R&D stints; Republic Act 11035 (2018) institutionalised tax breaks, …
Banco ADOPEM and researchers randomly assigned 1,193 Santo Domingo microentrepreneurs to standard accounting training, simplified rule-of-thumb training, or none. The simplified course …
Kazakhstan's eGov.kz and eGov Mobile grew to over 15 million registered users by end-2025, delivering more than 26 million public services in …
Sierra Leone's presidential innovation directorate built a biometric national digital ID now held by over 5 million citizens, using local community brokers …
Puerto Rico's government-backed accelerator has graduated 500+ startups since 2015, generating $502.3M in cumulative revenue and over 800 jobs, with 40% of …
Since 2012, France's 13 regional SATT companies have pooled university and public-lab patents into single professional transfer offices, filing 4,300+ patents and …
A psychology-based 'personal initiative' training for 1,500 Lomé microentrepreneurs raised monthly profits 30% within 2.5 years and USD 91 (52%) after 7 …
A Puebla state agency matched 150 small and medium firms with subsidised local consultants for a year; five years later, Mexican social-security …
Barcelona closed street grids to through-traffic in pilot 'superblocks'; evaluated zones saw NO2 fall 24% and noise fall 5.4%. A 2019 health-impact …
India's subsidised Lean Manufacturing Scheme embeds certified lean consultants in MSME factories. A pilot across 89 mini-clusters reported a 20% productivity gain, …
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