A $65M World Bank-financed programme rehabilitated and extended Lusaka's sewer network, connecting 345,000+ residents to sanitation services -- beating its 305,000 target …
Lusaka, Zambia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
Poland's first university tech-transfer centre: WCTT has trained ~59,000 people, run 645 tech audits, backed 174 international transfer deals and helped establish …
Wrocław, Poland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
A €4m Friuli Venezia Giulia project deploys AI speech-to-text captioning for deaf/hard-of-hearing students. A 2025 peer-reviewed SWOT/TOWS analysis of stakeholders found real …
Trieste, Italy
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
Since 2017, Slovakia's SARIO and SBA have helped 1,100+ SMEs with export and internationalization services, but an independent government evaluation found only …
Bratislava, Slovakia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
Since 2017, South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has funded small-scale neighbourhood renewal at hundreds of sites as an alternative …
Busan, South Korea
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
Slovakia's SIEA gave SMEs €1,000–€5,000 vouchers for creative-industry services. A matched study of 72 supported firms found sales grew 2.64x and assets …
Bratislava, Slovakia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
Slovenia's SPS ran four SME digitalisation-voucher tracks (2019–2023), completing 759 projects worth ~EUR 11 million, with 63% of funds weighted toward the …
Maribor, Slovenia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 63%62/100
JIC, a public-university start-up and technology-transfer agency in Brno (founded 2003, co-owned by the region, city and four universities), has incubated 100+ …
Brno, Czechia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 63%62/100
One of South-East Europe's largest knowledge-commercialisation ecosystems: 300+ resident companies and ~1,500 employees across 75,000 m², with 500+ high-value jobs created and …
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
Romania's Gold Label-certified IT cluster: a Dec-2017 sector study found 1,235 Cluj-Napoca IT firms employing ~14,000 people (8.7% of city workforce); in …
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 63%62/100
5.6 M ERDF project piloted a transdisciplinary model linking cultural & creative industries with tech and knowledge-intensive services via 3 urban labs; …
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 46%60/100
Croatia expanded its AI-assisted wildfire camera network from 50 to 75 cameras across national parks and high-risk areas, using AI and meteorological …
Zagreb, Croatia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 74%57/100
World Bank-financed KIIDP (2008-2021, $33.6M then $183.7M) gave 1.3M+ Kampala residents road access, beating its target -- but a drainage sub-project lost …
Kampala, Uganda
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 74%57/100
Poland's first market-based science park (est. 1995), run by the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation: around 80 tenant companies, 60 research labs, and …