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New Zealand's Edmund Hillary Fellowship ran a four-year Global Impact Visa pilot with Immigration NZ, drawing 532 fellows from 58 countries. EHF …
A 1.5-million-sq-ft Toronto innovation hub linking universities, hospitals, corporates and 1,400+ ventures since 2005; self-reported billions in capital raised, though independent press …
Founded in 2002 at Poland's oldest university, CITTRU runs Jagiellonian University's tech-transfer pipeline: in 2021 alone it produced 68 knowledge-transfer agreements (incl. …
Established in 2011 inside Tanzania's national science agency, Buni Hub and its incubation partner DTBi form one of East Africa's longest-running state-backed …
HUN-REN's Welcome Home programme offers researchers abroad grants up to HUF 200M over 5 years to lead a group in Hungary; round …
Since 2012, Yerevan's Repat Armenia Foundation has helped diaspora Armenians relocate and integrate — logging 400+ employment consultations and 35 community events …
Dubai's renewable 10-year residency for investors, skilled professionals and researchers grew from 47,150 visas issued in 2021 to 158,000 in 2023 per …
Cyprus's capped digital-nomad residence scheme, launched with just 100 places in 2021, hit its enlarged 500-permit ceiling by 2023; government data show …
Stellenbosch University's tech-transfer office has spun out ~30 companies since 1998; in 2023 the SU Group posted a combined R422 million turnover …
NSW Government's AUD $35M co-working hub (2018–2025), 17,000 m² on 11 floors at 11 York St Sydney. Housed 1,800+ startups that created …
Ireland's largest estate regeneration (from 1997) replaced 36 flat blocks; the Comptroller and Auditor General found costs rose from €442m to €942m …
Since 2020 Budapest residents propose and vote on city-wide projects through an online platform (HUF 1bn in 2025; ~15,000 voters). An academic …
England's LEGI gave GBP 418m to 30 deprived areas (2006–2011) for business support. A regression-discontinuity study found jobs rose inside treated areas …
Dutch government targeted 40 deprived districts from 2008 (EUR 216m public, ~EUR 1bn from housing corporations in 2008-2011). SCP's 2013 evaluation found …
Denmark's state growth fund Vækstfonden and Greenland's state-owned Greenland Venture jointly committed 220 million DKK in 2019 to co-invest 50/50 in Greenlandic …
Antigua launched the Nomad Digital Residence on 24 Sept 2020, one of the Caribbean's first COVID-era remote-work visas: $1,500 fee, $50,000 minimum …
A randomized field experiment aired a 3-month entrepreneurship 'edutainment' show to 2,000+ Tanzanian students in 2011; it raised interest in entrepreneurship, especially …
Warsaw's PFR TFI has co-invested over €100M across 20+ deals since 2016/17, helping firms like Elemental Holding expand abroad — but its …
A $30 million, five-year World Bank project backs a national partial-credit-guarantee mechanism and SME training to help Central African Republic firms access …
In October 2023, St Helena — reachable only by air or sea — connected to Google's Equiano subsea cable, cutting latency from …
Sudan's leading startup accelerator built 120+ businesses, 1,000+ jobs and Sudan's first equity fund from Khartoum — then saw operations shut down …
Benin's 2023 Startup Act produced its first labelled cohort in May 2025: 15 MSMEs chosen from 95 applicants gain a three-year tax …
Spain's 2023 Startup Law digital-nomad visa saw granted residence permits roughly double year-on-year, from 9,537 in 2023 to 19,771 in 2024, per …
Antigua and Barbuda channels Citizenship by Investment donations via its National Development Fund into public infrastructure; the CIP raised EC$88.8m in 2022 …
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