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Tel Aviv's DigiTel platform personalises municipal services for almost 200,000 residents (60%+ of those eligible) via data fed by 200 staff 'knowledge …
Since 1981, France's CIFRE scheme has subsidised firms to employ PhD candidates split between the company and a public lab. A Céreq …
Shanghai is retrofitting neighbourhoods so daily needs sit within a 15-minute walk, completing 180+ projects toward 99% population coverage by 2035. Over …
Seoul's public-data portal grew from about 1,500 datasets and 53,000 daily uses in 2013 to roughly 4,700 datasets and 670,000 daily uses …
Since 1956, Mondragón Corporation has grown from one Basque cooperative into a group of ~70,000 employees and €11.2bn in 2024 revenue, using …
Since 2010, Maputo's ideiaLab has trained 1,000+ entrepreneurs a year and built a 25,700-member community. Its 2019 impact report found 71% of …
Since 1971, the Steinbeis Foundation has grown a decentralised network of roughly 1,100 self-financing transfer enterprises — many run by professors at …
In 2018, 20,000 Flemish households, schools and firms measured street-level NO2 with passive tubes for a month, reaching 96% valid data and …
Taiwan's annual Presidential Hackathon pairs citizen and civil-servant teams to solve public problems with data, then embeds winning prototypes into agency operations. …
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 …
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