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Norway's oldest university TTO, jointly owned by NTNU and the Central Norway health authority, has spun out 73 companies since 2003 — …
Georgia's Ministry of Justice launched data.gov.ge in 2015 under its Open Government Partnership plan. An independent 2018 review found just 161 databases …
Japan's 'Digital Nomad' visa lets high-earning remote workers stay up to six months; issuance rose from 257 in its first nine months …
Dominica's 30-year-old economic citizenship programme brought in an estimated 33% of GDP in 2022 alone, funding an airport, a geothermal plant and …
Created by a 2012 Act of Parliament, Eswatini's Royal Science and Technology Park runs an ICT-and-biotech business incubator from its Matsapha campus; …
Djibouti's flagship free trade zone grew from 21 to over 367 operating companies in six years on zero-tax terms, per two independent …
Bristol City Council and the University of Bristol launched 'Bristol Is Open' in 2015, a city-wide programmable smart-city testbed. It won UK …
Created by Ivorian law in 2004 and run by VITIB SA since 2007, the 624-hectare Grand-Bassam tech and biotech free zone near …
NURIS combines a tax-advantaged technopark, startup accelerator and commercialisation office at Nazarbayev University. It reports 257+ startups and KZT 3bn raised, but …
Built with a US$120m World Bank loan and marketed as a 100,000-job 'cyber capital,' Bangladesh's Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City had reached only about …
A randomised trial gave 160 Accra tailoring microenterprises free Ernst & Young consulting, a cash grant, both, or neither. All arms changed …
A World Bank pilot launched Armenia's Enterprise Incubator Foundation in 2002 to connect tech talent to markets; the founding project was rated …
Saudi Arabia's Premium Residency scheme grew from 73 permits in 2019 to a record 8,074 in 2024, but evidence shows uptake concentrated …
Guadalajara's annual multi-track tech convention grew from 33,000 (2018) to over 40,000 attendees (2024), but every figure is organiser- or government-reported with …
Brazil's MCTI/Softex ran Start-Up Brasil (2013-2019), a national accelerator offering R$200k non-dilutive grants and reserving up to 25% of slots for foreign …
Launched in 2020 to offset a COVID-era tourism collapse, Cayman's Global Citizen Concierge certificate let high-income remote workers live on-island for up …
Founded in 2015 by an Afghan computer-science professor in exile, Code to Inspire was Afghanistan's first all-female coding school. By 2020 it …
Botswana's state SME-lending agency financed 1,716 businesses with P696 million recently, but a 2023 World Bank/IMF review found only ~30% of its …
Colombia's science agency Colciencias earmarked COP 17.2bn (later cut to COP 11bn) to repatriate PhD-holding scientists via 2-year postdoctoral stays at 35 …
Billed as the world's first city data marketplace, this Copenhagen-Hitachi platform launched in May 2016 with dozens of paid and open datasets, …
Egypt's new capital, 45 km east of Cairo, has cost over $45 billion of a projected $58 billion, relocated 14+ ministries by …
Kuwait's applied-research institute has filed 75 patents since 1979, but an independent 2021 OECD review found its 2017 Technology Transfer Office had …
South Africa's remote-work visa, gazetted in May 2024 after a two-year delay, had drawn only 24 approved visas ten months later, the …
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs spent 2.5 years and committed US$50 million designing a sensor-laden Toronto waterfront district, then cancelled it in May 2020 …
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