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LISPOLIS is a private non-profit association with the aim of managing the Lisbon Technological Pole (PTL) and creating conditions for the success …
BIP/ZIP is Lisbon’s Local Development Strategy for Priority Intervention areas which provides the city with a range of integrated toolboxes based on …
The municipality had the ambition to be the European leader of creative innovation by 2020 after the Lehman Brothers collapse. The city …
At Copenhagen Solutions Lab, they support the development of Copenhagen through testing and implementation of intelligent and data-driven solutions that support the …
International House Copenhagen is a one-stop for registration services, events, and career programs to welcome international newcomers in Copenhagen and many other …
Copenhagen Capacity is a business foundation that submits annuals reports to the Danish Business Authority. They are the official organization for investment …
Berlin Partner is an economic development agency that focuses on economic growth, promotes business, technology and innovation, and advocates the opportunities of …
The Socially Integrative City is a community-led local development scheme. This was originally a federal programme but Berlin refined it with a …
Since the UK's 2014 tax-incentivised Employee Ownership Trust structure took effect, employee-owned firms grew from about 10 to over 1,650; an independent …
Helsinki converted its oldest hospital campus, closed 2014, into Maria 01, a non-profit startup hub co-owned by the city; by 2025 its …
The Netherlands' 2015 BIZ law lets local businesses vote to self-tax and jointly fund street cleaning, safety and marketing. It grew from …
In 1993 Israel's government committed $100M to co-invest in ten hybrid public-private VC funds, each pairing a new Israeli manager with a …
Colombia's Centro Nacional de Productividad randomly assigned 159 auto-parts firms to individual consulting, one-third-cost group consulting, or a control; both raised management …
A randomised evaluation (AER 2022, n=6,891) of Harambee's job-seeker skills certificates found they raised South African youth employment by ~17% and weekly …
Waka Kotahi's ~NZD 24m Innovating Streets fund paid 32 councils to trial 89km of low-cost cycleways, parklets and traffic calming in 2019–2021. …
Since 2021, WHO and the Medicines Patent Pool have backed Afrigen Biologics in Cape Town to reverse-engineer and transfer mRNA vaccine know-how …
Paraguay's procurement agency DNCP was one of the world's first adopters of the Open Contracting Data Standard, publishing full-cycle tender data that …
SEBRAE, FGV and GRADE ran a four-arm field trial with 790 informal microentrepreneurs in Rio's Complexo Maré favela (2018). In-person visits with …
An NGO's Talent Catalog matches displaced, skilled professionals in Jordan and Lebanon to ordinary skilled-worker visas abroad; a 2026 pre-registered study of …
Since 2010, Japan's Kitakyushu City has run over 192 city-to-city cooperation projects on waste management, water supply and air pollution control in …
Since 1997, a business–media–academia coalition has tracked Bogotá's quality of life through annual citizen perception surveys and an open indicators platform, becoming …
Iceland's 2015–2019 public-sector trials cut hours from 40 to 35–36/week for 2,500 workers (>1% of the workforce) at full pay; productivity held …
In 2009 the US DOE gave Chattanooga's EPB a $111.5M smart-grid grant; EPB installed 1,200 automated sensors across 171 circuits, cutting outage …
Estonia's decade-old e-Residency scheme has attracted over 135,000 digital residents from 185 countries, who founded a record 5,556 companies and generated €125 …
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