In 2020 Liechtenstein enacted the world's first comprehensive token-economy framework law (TVTG). By November 2025 just 29 firms were registered under it, …
Vanuatu's Economic Citizenship Programme once supplied 14% of GDP in government revenue (2020) but due-diligence failures triggered a full EU visa-waiver suspension …
Kuwait's National Fund for SME Development, capitalised at KD 2 billion in 2013, financed only about 1,040 projects at 2% interest in …
Guatemala's Guatecompras portal has made e-procurement mandatory nationwide since 2004, but an independent World Bank audit found actual online disclosure averaged only …
A four-day Lao-Korean workshop paired Luang Prabang's mostly informal entrepreneur base (2,788 new micro-SMEs in 3 years, only 250 registered locally) with …
Botswana merged its export and investment agencies into BITC in 2012 to diversify beyond diamonds; in FY2020/21 it facilitated P1.38bn in FDI …
Benin's government is building a 336-hectare 'city of knowledge' in Ouidah combining a university campus, research park and youth programmes, targeting 100,000 …
LNDC's push for export-garment FDI built a sector employing ~34,000 (mostly women) and generating $300m in 2024 exports, but jobs fell from …
A volunteer-run tech community in Buea, Cameroon grew from a 2006 web-developer meetup into ActivSpaces, which incubated real startups (Njorku, Healthlane) — …
Canada's federal government ran a CAD 4 billion digital-adoption programme with e-commerce micro-grants, advisory grants up to CAD 15,000 and BDC loans; …
Bulgaria's SME agency issued 516 fixed-value vouchers for websites, e-commerce, digital marketing and cybersecurity services, co-financed by the EU's 2014-2020 Innovation and …
Montenegro's Innovation Fund, operating since 2021 under a 2020 law, has financed 278 projects worth €12.2M across 23 calls. In 2025 alone …
Cambodia's Ministry of Economy and Finance launched Techo Startup Center in 2019 with a pledged $5M/year fund. A 2025 ADB-backed initiative now …
A 2008 randomised trial gave over 300 PRIDE Tanzania microfinance clients in Dar es Salaam classroom business training from UDEC. Knowledge gained …
Ghana's 2017 national digital-addressing system assigns a unique code to every 5m² of the country. Independent fieldwork cited by TechLabari found uneven …
Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has helped commercialise publicly funded research since 2000. MaRS cites $3bn in cumulative economic impact, but independent reporting …
NTNU's tech-transfer office, jointly owned by the university and regional health authority since 2003, produced its best-known spin-off in Kahoot!, but its …
Founded in 2001, MaRS grew into a 1,400-venture Toronto hub with $2.4B in portfolio capital raised (2020) — but by 2024 non-government …
Technoport, Luxembourg's national technology incubator launched in 1998, has hosted more than 150 companies at its Belval and Foetz sites, with around …
Malta's national life-sciences park, run by agency Malta Enterprise, links the University of Malta, Mater Dei Hospital and the Oncology Hospital with …
Since 2014, Hungary's HIPA has brokered 2,305 investment projects worth over EUR66bn; 2025's record EUR7bn/108 projects is confirmed by two outlets - …
Norway's oldest university TTO, jointly owned by NTNU and the Central Norway health authority, has spun out 73 companies since 2003 — …
Since 2021, Nenech.se lets people threatened by domestic violence in Czechia request anonymous, coded online contact with their local Intervention Centre — …
A radio drama and weekly community listening groups run by Equal Access International in Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Kapilvastu, Nepal. A cluster-randomised trial …
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