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 …
Estonia's decade-old e-Residency scheme has attracted over 135,000 digital residents from 185 countries, who founded a record 5,556 companies and generated €125 …
Founded in 2011, the Iceland Ocean Cluster's self-funded Ocean Cluster House grew from 12 to over 70 resident marine firms, helping lift …
Kenya's first citywide Special Planning Area designation (2017) gave 100,560 households on 689 acres of Nairobi's Mukuru settlements a co-produced governance mechanism; …
Bologna's 2014 regulation lets citizen groups sign 'Pacts of Collaboration' with the city to co-manage public spaces. Over 400 pacts have been …
Since 1986, the Philippines' Community Mortgage Program has let associations of informal settlers collectively buy and title their land; it reached 106,273 …
Since 2000, La Paz's municipal government has upgraded more than 100 of the city's poorest hillside neighbourhoods through 'Barrios de Verdad,' combining …
Freetown mapped 4,038 km of formal and informal bus routes (2018–19), then in 2024 trained residents of informal settlements as a community …
Peru's Ministry of Production scaled a technology-extension network from 3 pilot centres (2012) to 48 CITEs today across agroindustry, fisheries, leather and …
Starting in Jakarta in 1969, Indonesia's Kampung Improvement Programme threaded paved paths, drainage, water and sanitation into existing 'kampung' neighbourhoods without resettling …
Rwanda built one of the world's first national beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone regulatory frameworks so Zipline's autonomous aircraft could deliver blood and medical products …
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