Knowledge Transfer Ireland publishes standardised annual metrics on how Irish universities license research to industry. Its 2024 survey recorded 221 licences/options/assignments and …
Paraguay's National Science & Technology Council ran PROINNOVA with IDB financing, executing 100 firm-level innovation projects, training 400 innovation leaders and assisting …
Asunción, Paraguay
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Launched Feb 2018 by Bahrain's Economic Development Board and 28 partners alongside the region's first central-bank regulatory sandbox, Bahrain FinTech Bay incubated …
Enterprise Ireland's CEO programme paired 141 scale-up leaders with Stanford, Duke and IMD faculty. A matched control-group evaluation found cohorts out-grew peers …
Dublin, Ireland
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 42%71/100
A UK-government-subsidised 12-week leadership course delivered through 66 business schools reached 9,847 SME leaders by 2025. An independent econometric evaluation found it …
Buenos Aires launched its BAData portal in 2012, growing to 400+ datasets from 35+ agencies, then adding public-works, procurement, climate and gender-violence …
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Argonne National Lab, the University of Chicago and Chicago built the open-source 'Array of Things' sensor network (2016-) for street-level environmental and …
Chicago, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
The University of the Philippines' national technology-transfer office moves publicly funded research into use: as of 2025 it counted 113 innovation ventures, …
Quezon City, Philippines
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Since 2019, Slovenia's national digitalisation-voucher system has co-financed digital marketing, strategy, competency and cybersecurity projects for SMEs — over 5,577 vouchers approved …
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%71/100
Since 2011, KiwiNet has pooled New Zealand's university and Crown Research Institute commercialisation efforts, backing 82+ spin-outs and $560m in cumulative returns …
Hamilton, New Zealand
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Mexico City's 'Ministry of Imagination' ran 50+ civic experiments in five years, including Mapatón: 3,594 citizens crowdsourced GPS data to map 51,308km …
Mexico City, Mexico
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%71/100
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has helped create roughly 500 university spin-offs since 1996. An independent 2020 University of St Gallen study of …
Zurich, Switzerland
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 42%71/100
Colombia paired 4,000+ small and mid-size firms across all 32 departments with productivity experts; an independent Fedesarrollo evaluation of 1,035 firms found …
Bogotá, Colombia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100