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JICA and South Africa's AIDC gave eight auto-parts suppliers years of on-site Kaizen coaching. By 2018, labour productivity had more than doubled, …
A 2011 law created zero-VAT, zero-corporate-tax status for IT exporters in Bishkek; resident revenue grew from $3m (2013) to $15m (2020) and …
Rio de Janeiro's flagship in-situ favela-upgrading programme (1994–2008) delivered streets, drainage and services without removing residents; a peer-reviewed evaluation found service-access gains …
CINDE was rated the world's top investment agency by the UN's ITC for 5 straight years (2017-22, 95.27/100 of 85 agencies). It …
Running from 2008 to 2015, Bangladesh's UPPR programme funded community-led settlement improvements and livelihood support across 23 towns and cities, reaching an …
Moldova replaced corporate, payroll and social taxes for IT firms with a single 7% turnover tax under a nationwide virtual free-zone law, …
A randomised trial added entrepreneurship training to 239 FINCA Peru village banks (4,591 mostly female clients) in Lima and Ayacucho. Short-term sales …
Slovakia's SIEA gave SMEs €1,000–€5,000 vouchers for creative-industry services. A matched study of 72 supported firms found sales grew 2.64x and assets …
Taiwan's ITRI, a non-profit applied-research institute founded in 1973, transferred RCA semiconductor technology into two direct spin-offs — UMC (1980) and TSMC …
Austria's KMU.DIGITAL grant, jointly run by WKO and aws since 2017, has funded over 25,000 SME digitalisation initiatives; since its 2024 relaunch …
Slovenia's SPS ran four SME digitalisation-voucher tracks (2019–2023), completing 759 projects worth ~EUR 11 million, with 63% of funds weighted toward the …
NUS's Technology Transfer and Innovation office has helped secure more than 760 patents and spin off over 120 technology-based companies in five …
JIC, a public-university start-up and technology-transfer agency in Brno (founded 2003, co-owned by the region, city and four universities), has incubated 100+ …
Founded in 1964, Yissum — Hebrew University of Jerusalem's tech-transfer company — has registered over 10,500 patents and licensed 1,000+ technologies. Independent …
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has produced 583 spin-offs since 1973 with a 93% five-year survival rate, but its outlier funding base limits …
Founded in 2003 by Brno, the South Moravian Region and four universities after factory closures, JIC's incubators grew enrolled firms' turnover 9x …
UniQuest, University of Queensland's tech-transfer firm since 1984, licensed the Gardasil HPV-vaccine IP and creates spin-outs. Audited UQ accounts confirm rising Gardasil …
NUS Enterprise's Technology Transfer office licenses NUS research to industry and incubates spin-offs. Its GRIP programme helped ~100 spin-offs raise almost SGD …
Central and Eastern Europe's first innovation and technology park, launched in 1996 by two Budapest universities and the Hungarian government, has grown …
In 2019 KAIST's tech-transfer office earned KRW 10.18 billion (about $8.6m) in royalties from 56 licensing contracts — the highest of any …
Active since 1997, Medicon Valley Alliance is the cross-border cluster for the Øresund life-science region (Eastern Denmark, Southern Sweden) — 400+ companies, …
Switzerland's first tech-transfer science park (opened 1993 for ETH spin-offs): by 2017 it had ~280 resident firms and ~1,800 jobs on its …
Inven2, the University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital's technology transfer office, helped launch 55 start-ups and sign 388 licence agreements between 2010 and …
Action Greensboro's Boomerang Greensboro campaign (2021–) helps former residents relocate back to the city; an independent Lightcast study of confirmed returnees found …
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