Barcelona rezoned 200 hectares of derelict Poblenou industry into 22@, now home to over 8,000 companies and 90,000+ jobs — but 20 …
Ho Chi Minh City's first software park has grown over 25 years into Vietnam's largest tech cluster — 121 IT firms at …
Kyrgyzstan's Estonia-modelled X-Road data layer grew from 363,000 exchanges in 2018 to about 3.5bn in 2024, linking 37 agencies and saving citizens …
Kenya's national informal-settlements upgrading programme has prepared over 23,000 land titles and delivered roads, drainage, water and sewer connections that the government …
Brazil's federal EMBRAPII co-funds R&D between research institutes and firms, splitting risk three ways. A first evaluation of 179 funded firms found …
Lithuania's national GovTech Lab runs funded sandbox cohorts letting public bodies trial AI and emerging-tech tools before rollout. Its 2024 AI cohort …
Spain's Next Generation EU-funded Kit Digital gave SMEs and freelancers vouchers of up to €12,000 for digital tools; by its 2025 close …
A randomised trial delivered ILO's SIYB training to 1,256 women across 10 divisions of greater Colombo and Kandy. Training alone did not …
Between 2012 and 2024, Tunisia's ARRU rehabilitated 155 low-income 'quartiers populaires' nationwide — roads, water, sewage and community facilities for roughly 865,000 …
Thailand's Baan Mankong programme channelled government infrastructure subsidies and soft loans directly to community-run savings cooperatives, who then negotiated land tenure and …
In the small Danish port town of Kalundborg, a refinery, power plant, gypsum-board maker and biotech firms have traded waste heat, steam, …
An €11.5m EBRD-EU pilot helped over 200 Bosnian firms digitalise; building on it, the EU and EBRD launched a €377m 'Go Digital' …
A state-backed applied-research institute that seeded Taiwan's semiconductor industry by spinning off UMC (1980) and TSMC (1987), transferring technology, fabs and staff …
Since 2000, UCT's Research Contracts & Innovation office has built 40 spin-off companies worth over R250 million in university equity, including HyPlat, …
Seoul's government-backed venture fund programme: the 2019–22 Future Innovation Growth Fund raised 3.4 trillion won (283% above target), invested in 470 startups …
Recognised in 1988 as China's first state-level high-tech zone, Zhongguancun in Beijing grew from a district electronics market into a technology-transfer hub …
ETH Zurich's tech-transfer office turns research into patents, licences and spin-offs. In 2025 it logged 124 disclosures, 98 patents and 37 licences; …
ETH Zurich's tech-transfer office produced 37 new spin-offs in 2024, which attracted almost CHF 425 million in financing that year alone; of …
A technology and creative-economy district in Recife's historic port quarter, growing from a 2000 founding to 340+ companies, 21,551 jobs and R$6.2 …
Science park attached to a technical university that has hosted 500+ deep-tech startups over three decades, with EPFL spin-offs raising CHF 470 …
Nordic region's largest tech-transfer office, merging University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital's TTOs: 2,072 inventions, 388 licences and 55 start-ups in …
ETH Zurich's central tech-transfer office turns university IP into companies: a record 43 spin-offs in 2023, 620 total by 2024, and CHF …
Founded in 2003 by the South Moravian Region, the City of Brno and four local universities, JIC has supported 300+ companies employing …
Zambia's first tech hub, founded in 2011, had aided ~1,300 startups and channelled $2m+ by 2020 (TechCabal); by 2026 it reports 2,800+ …
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