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Knowledge Transfer Ireland publishes standardised annual metrics on how Irish universities license research to industry. Its 2024 survey recorded 221 licences/options/assignments and …
Paraguay's National Science & Technology Council ran PROINNOVA with IDB financing, executing 100 firm-level innovation projects, training 400 innovation leaders and assisting …
Latvia's investment agency LIAA ran a EUR 33.5 million digitalisation grant line that drew 2,346 applications and paid out EUR 5.74 million …
Since 1992, Thailand's NSTDA has run ITAP, pairing SMEs with subsidised technical experts from universities and labs. NSTDA reports 10,500+ SMEs and …
UNDP/UNICEF's Kolba Lab, the first innovation lab embedded in a UNDP country office, has run 7+ crowdsourced idea competitions since 2011: 700 …
Launched Feb 2018 by Bahrain's Economic Development Board and 28 partners alongside the region's first central-bank regulatory sandbox, Bahrain FinTech Bay incubated …
Enterprise Ireland's CEO programme paired 141 scale-up leaders with Stanford, Duke and IMD faculty. A matched control-group evaluation found cohorts out-grew peers …
A UK-government-subsidised 12-week leadership course delivered through 66 business schools reached 9,847 SME leaders by 2025. An independent econometric evaluation found it …
Jakarta Smart City (2014–) pairs a command centre with citizen-reporting apps (Qlue, then JAKI from 2019) and open data; an independent evaluation …
Buenos Aires launched its BAData portal in 2012, growing to 400+ datasets from 35+ agencies, then adding public-works, procurement, climate and gender-violence …
Built in 8 months after a deadly 2010 landslide, Rio's Centro de Operações e Resiliência (COR) fuses 50+ agencies' data into one …
Argonne National Lab, the University of Chicago and Chicago built the open-source 'Array of Things' sensor network (2016-) for street-level environmental and …
The University of the Philippines' national technology-transfer office moves publicly funded research into use: as of 2025 it counted 113 innovation ventures, …
University of Tokyo's wholly-owned VC arm has raised two ~JPY25bn funds since 2016, backed 50+ deep-tech spinouts (3 IPOs) and helped grow …
Since 2019, Slovenia's national digitalisation-voucher system has co-financed digital marketing, strategy, competency and cybersecurity projects for SMEs — over 5,577 vouchers approved …
Nairobi's first major open tech innovation space, founded in 2010 with Omidyar Network and Hivos backing, catalysing Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' developer and …
Since 2011, KiwiNet has pooled New Zealand's university and Crown Research Institute commercialisation efforts, backing 82+ spin-outs and $560m in cumulative returns …
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has produced 620 spin-offs since 1973, including 37 in 2024 that raised CHF 425M and a 93% five-year …
Mexico City's 'Ministry of Imagination' ran 50+ civic experiments in five years, including Mapatón: 3,594 citizens crowdsourced GPS data to map 51,308km …
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has helped create roughly 500 university spin-offs since 1996. An independent 2020 University of St Gallen study of …
Colombia paired 4,000+ small and mid-size firms across all 32 departments with productivity experts; an independent Fedesarrollo evaluation of 1,035 firms found …
Since 2007, KTH Innovation has met more than 400 new-idea teams a year and helped launch over 450 companies that together raised …
Regional innovation agency jointly founded by the City of Brno, the South Moravian Region and four Brno universities to bridge academic research …
Japan's METI-led SME Productivity Revolution Programme has run since 2018 (JPY 340bn FY2024 budget). Results are mixed: the IT subsidy gave a …
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