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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 …
Athens piloted a 6.8 km pedestrian-priority network in June–Oct 2020. An NTUA study found less car use and safer, quieter streets, but …
Cuba's 2013 flagship special economic zone at Mariel drew 62 approved businesses and over $3bn in committed investment by 2022, but only …
Founded in 2000 by ~50 Lebanese banks, Kafalat guarantees SME loans in five priority sectors, using reserve-requirement exemptions to drive bank uptake …
Curaçao's government launched the multi-ministry "@HOME in Curaçao" remote-work, investor and long-stay visa in February 2021, targeting c.625 applicants - but no …
Ponca City, Oklahoma (pop. ~24,000) pays $2,500–$4,500 in home-purchase or rental assistance to relocating employees and qualifying remote workers. Launched May 2026 …
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 …
Since December 2018 Barcelona requires 30% social housing in developments over 600 m². Council data show 156 of 1,650 planned homes built …
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