CEA-Leti, Grenoble's applied microelectronics institute, has spun off 70+ startups since 1967 — including STMicroelectronics and Soitec — files ~200 patents a …
Grenoble, France
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%76/100
A KU Leuven spin-off founded in 1984 with Flemish-government backing, imec grew into a 6,600-employee, ~EUR 1.2bn-revenue nanoelectronics R&D hub with 100+ …
Leuven, Belgium
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
EU-backed multi-sector innovation hub (opened Sep 2021) at Budapest's Infopark co-ordinating four EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities. By 2024: 183 Hungarian startups …
Budapest, Hungary
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
AI-dispatched electric minibuses piloted in Manastirski Livadi, Sofia, scaled to 3 more neighbourhoods post-project; green corridors, congestion charges and low-emission zones complemented …
Sofia, Bulgaria
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 22%73/100
Politecnico di Milano's Perivallon project uses neural networks on satellite imagery to flag illegal waste dumps with over 90% accuracy, piloted across …
Milan, Italy
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 6%73/100
A World Bank-designed randomized controlled trial gave about 800 Edo State, Nigeria senior-secondary students six weeks of after-school, teacher-guided ChatGPT tutoring in …
Benin City, Nigeria
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 55%72/100
A UNDP-backed crowdsourced app lets Sarajevo residents flag physical barriers — steps, narrow sidewalks, ramp-free transit — and get walking routes matched …
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Since 2012, France's 13 regional SATT companies have pooled university and public-lab patents into single professional transfer offices, filing 4,300+ patents and …
Croatia's first university-founded science and technology park (2008) advised 1,357 companies and scientists between 2013-2019 and has contracted 50+ projects worth over …
Rijeka, Croatia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Since 2016, Knowle West Media Centre has run the Bristol Approach to Citizen Sensing, an EU Horizon 2020-funded (REPLICATE project) methodology letting …
Since 1990, TecMinho — University of Minho's private not-for-profit interface body — has brokered 618 industry R&D contracts, filed 358 patent applications …
Braga, Portugal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
A peer-reviewed RCT across four universities randomly assigned 3,080 short-answer responses to GPT-4 or human grading. Scores were statistically indistinguishable, and AI …
Houston, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
A 13-week controlled study at four Hungarian universities found a ChatGPT-based adaptive tutor using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing nearly doubled programming gains for …
Dunaújváros, Hungary
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 32%67/100
The Italian Senate uses Similis, an NLP tool built with CNR, to automatically cluster near-identical amendments filed en masse during filibusters. Presented …
Rome, Italy
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
UCC's semiconductor/photonics research institute runs a technology-transfer pipeline that spun out InfiniLED (acquired by Facebook/Oculus, 2016) and Vivid Photonics (2025), with a …