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Tuvalu turned its accidental '.tv' internet domain into a major public revenue stream: a Verisign licence paid about US$5m/year (roughly 8% of …
Since 1984, St Kitts and Nevis has sold citizenship to foreign investors; revenue peaked near half of GDP in 2021. IMF-flagged scrutiny …
Japan pays households leaving Tokyo's 23 wards up to ¥5m (~$32,000) to relocate to one of roughly 1,800 rural municipalities and take …
Burkina Faso and the African Development Bank launched the third phase of a €13.62m rural incubator (PADEJ-MR) in July 2025, giving 65 …
A $3.5m ADB loan built a loan-guarantee scheme and advisory services for small businesses in Samoa. By 2008 it had issued 838 …
Co-founded in 2017 by the Monegasque government, Monaco Telecom and entrepreneur Xavier Niel, MonacoTech has incubated more than 50 start-ups from its …
Uganda's national industrial research parastatal used a ~$4M World Bank Millennium Science Initiative grant to modernise its labs, now running 30+ SME …
Egypt's ASRT has scaled its Technology Innovation & Commercialisation Offices (TICOs) from a 2013 pilot to 56 university-based offices by 2024, though …
Since a 2010 decree, Institut Teknologi Bandung's LPIK has run an integrated tech-transfer office, incubator, science park and commercialisation firm that helped …
Russia's state-backed innovation city grew from its 2010 founding to roughly 2,500-2,700 resident companies with over $1.5bn in 2019 revenue and hundreds …
UNCDF and ygap's Incubate Better programme gave the Young Entrepreneurs Council Solomon Islands (founded 2017) two grants (US$7,000 then US$8,000) and six …
Sri Lanka's public–private SLINTEC lost over 80 scientists to funding strain by 2022, then commercialised 8 patents in 12 months under new …
Hong Kong's no-quota talent visa drew over 116,000 applications and 92,000 approvals by end-2024, with 75,000+ arrivals, but only about half of …
A privately built New Urbanist district in Guatemala City — 350 shops, 650 residences and a 2021 CNU Charter Award — that …
Built with World Bank Private Sector Development Project support and opened in 2012, Bhutan's first IT park now employs 717 Bhutanese across …
A $20m World Bank IDA credit line and risk-sharing facility routed long-term loans to Lao SMEs through three commercial banks; by mid-2017 …
Minsk's 2005 tax-free IT zone grew ICT to 7.4% of GDP and $3.8bn in exports by 2021, but the 2020 crackdown and …
Panama's Law 41 of 2007 lets multinationals with US$200M+ in capital register a regional headquarters (SEM) in Panama City, with reduced income …
Operating since 2000, the Parque Cibernético de Santo Domingo tech free-trade zone has trained 30,000+ technologists via its ITLA institute, though its …
Beirut Digital District has grown from 17,500 m² to 44,500 m² since 2012 and partnered with the World Bank in 2022 to …
Established in 2012 with Norwegian government support, Innovation Centre Kosovo has trained over 11,000 people through 671 courses and supported 500+ startups …
Innovation Centre Kosovo, founded in Prishtina in 2012 with Norwegian backing, has trained 8,000-11,000+ people and supported 500+ startups with €7.5M in …
Backed by a $1M Bloomberg Philanthropies award (2021, chosen from 630 cities) and UNDP, Greater Amman Municipality launched a trial AI-assisted feedback …
Tunisia's first ICT technopark has hosted about 90 companies — including R&D units of Microsoft, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent — employing over 2,900 …
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