Catalogue: City Innovation Library clear
Porto Alegre's 1989 invention of neighbourhood budget assemblies raised sewer/water coverage from 75% to 98% of households by 1997 and became the …
A decade-long World Bank-financed programme upgraded drainage, roads and utilities in low-income alleys across Ho Chi Minh City and three other Vietnamese …
Innovate UK's KTP scheme embeds graduate associates in businesses to apply university research. An independent evaluation of 2,000 projects (2010–2020) found £1.7–2.3bn …
Launched in 1995, Ahmedabad's Parivartan programme used a four-way cost-share between the city, NGOs, private donors and residents to connect 41 slum …
Since the early 1990s, Namibia's shack-dweller savings groups have secured land tenure for 3,200 households and self-built 1,350 homes at about a …
A 'second-generation' crime-prevention-through-design programme in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township pairs infrastructure upgrading with community safety work; a peer-reviewed 2020 study of 3,625 …
Since 1994, Nicaragua's PRODEL fund has combined small grants for neighbourhood infrastructure with housing and micro-enterprise credit across founding municipalities, reaching 38,000 …
Since 1980, residents of Karachi's Orangi settlement have self-financed and self-built underground sewers guided by the Orangi Pilot Project, cutting sanitation costs …
Ireland's Connected Hubs network grew from a 2019 pilot to over 400 co-working hubs in every county by 2025; the wider community-hub …
Since 2010, Lima Cómo Vamos has surveyed ~2,000 residents of Metropolitan Lima annually on urban quality of life. A 2022 peer-reviewed study …
Dar es Salaam's Ramani Huria trained 450 community members and students to map flood-prone informal settlements with OpenStreetMap and drones. Since 2015 …
A public innovation agency founded in 2009 by the City of Medellín, EPM and UNE to shift the city from an industrial …
Founded in 1999, Mitacs now funds industry-linked graduate internships across all 198 Canadian post-secondary institutions — $292.7m invested in 7,202 projects in …
Singapore's IMDA-led SMEs Go Digital programme has supported ~88,000 SMEs since 2017 via tiered digital grants. A 2023 impact evaluation found productivity …
Founded in 1972, KU Leuven's tech-transfer office LRD generated 3,142 industry collaboration agreements, 102 new patents and €152.6 million in licence income …
Chile's CORFO built the world's first public accelerator in 2010, drawing 5,000+ applications a year and funding 240+ startups; a 2010–12 evaluation …
Japan's first startup deregulation zone (2014) and first city to introduce a Startup Visa (2015). Public incubator FGN helped 98 companies raise …
The EPFL Innovation Park in Lausanne houses 250 high-tech companies and 2,500 researchers, enabling structured university–industry knowledge transfer. EPFL-related startups raised CHF …
Africa's first open innovation hub, founded in Lagos in 2010; by 2025 it had deployed $17.1 M cumulatively to 3,312 ventures across …
World's first government-funded, equity-free international startup accelerator, launched 2010 by CORFO. Over 1,600 startups from 85 countries; alumni raised $998M — 13.8× …
Public-private hub founded 2009 by Medellín's mayor and utility EPM. Quintuple-helix connector for startups, academia, government and industry; COP 70 leveraged per …
City-council programme (since 2015) pairing Porto City Council with Porto Business School to support 200+ startups through mentorship, coaching and international connections. …
Since 2010, Reykjavik crowdsourcing platform registered 70,000+ participants (58 % of residents), collected 10,000+ ideas, realised nearly 700 citizen projects and allocates …
JIC has supported Brno's innovation ecosystem since 2003 — 95% incubator occupancy, 147 new tech companies in 2023, EUR 640 million in …
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