City- and region-funded one-stop service (since 2010) providing visa, housing and labour-market guidance to international skilled professionals; 13,000+ served over 14 years; …
Brno, Czechia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%67/100
Norway's leading early-stage tech incubator (2012) at Oslo Science Park: 100+ active companies, 450+ startups supported, 130+ investments and 7 exits. Alumni: …
Luxembourg national innovation agency and employment authority jointly run a talent portal and employer support programme to attract international tech, finance, and …
Milano & Partners, the city official investment and promotion agency, runs a talent attraction platform offering relocation guidance, networking, and sector-specific landing …
Latvia Startup Visa (2017) gives non-EU startup founders a 3-year residence permit. By 2023, 360 founders across 175 startups had relocated (LSM/LIAA). …
Riga, Latvia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%67/100
Choose Paris Region is the Île-de-France Region's official attractiveness agency. In 2022 it directly facilitated 308 FDI projects creating 7,749 jobs (≈75% …
Paris, France
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 54%67/100
Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Informatics launched a nationwide startup pipeline in 2016, running Ignition-to-Incubation cohorts across 17 hubs in 34 provinces. …
Anguilla, a 15,000-resident Caribbean territory, turned its inherited '.ai' internet suffix into a fiscal engine: registrations jumped from 144,000 (2022) to 354,000 …
Opened in 2022 as the network's 13th site, Orange Digital Center Guinée offers free coding, FabLab and startup-acceleration training in Conakry. Orange's …
Since 2017, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has funded small-scale neighbourhood renewal at hundreds of sites as an alternative …
Busan, South Korea
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 65%62/100
Uruguay's tripartite state-industry-bank testing institute, LATU has run since 1965 and holds 300+ ISO/IEC 17025-accredited tests plus ISO 9001, product-certification and proficiency-testing …
Compete Caribbean's IDB-backed blue-economy grant (RG-T3560) matched US$250,000 in co-financing for Algas Organics, a Sargassum-seaweed bio-fertiliser firm in Dennery, Saint Lucia, helping …
After a 2016 PSDI diagnostic found outdated laws deterred business creation, Kiribati's Parliament passed a modern Companies Act, Company Insolvency Act and …
A joint Finnish government programme coordinating immigration, education and employment policy to attract and retain international specialists and students; national foreign-graduate employment …
A Chișinău ICT hub built by Moldova's tech association (ATIC) with USAID/Sida funding, bridging university curricula and employer needs. Its 718,232 self-reported …
Chișinău, Moldova
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
A Stanford–World Bank field experiment gave free Accenture management consulting to 17 Indian textile firms; treated plants raised productivity by 11% within …