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. …
Jakarta, Indonesia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
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 63%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 …
Montevideo, Uruguay
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
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After a 2016 PSDI diagnostic found outdated laws deterred business creation, Kiribati's Parliament passed a modern Companies Act, Company Insolvency Act and …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 63%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 …
Tarapur, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
Zoned in 1988 as one of the UK's first cultural-industries districts, Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter grew from ~120 cultural businesses and 1,200 …
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
Since 2021, Hengqin's Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Zone has grown to 31,506 businesses whose 'four new' industries generated 21.6bn yuan — 57.8% of zone …
Hengqin, Zhuhai, Macao
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
Greece's official digital registry certifies eligible startups and tracks ecosystem growth: 789 registered startups by Oct 2024, €732.2M invested in 90+ startups …
Athens, Greece
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 63%62/100
Enterprise Georgia's flagship SME scheme combines credit guarantees, industrial co-financing and micro-loans; a 2026 parliamentary report cites 1,279 entrepreneurs financed and GEL …
Since 2015 Trikala has used its own streets as an EU-funded automated-mobility testbed: CityMobil2 driverless minibuses made 1,490 trips carrying 12,138 passengers …
Trikala, Greece
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
Moldova's MConnect platform now links over 500 public and private information systems through 800+ live data-exchange scenarios, though the national Court of …