Ho Chi Minh City's flagship tech park grew from 26 firms and $2bn invested (2011) to 160+ projects worth $13.7bn (2025); its …
In March 2020 Luxembourg became the first country to abolish fares on all trains, trams and buses nationwide, an unprecedented mobility experiment …
CTIC Dakar, founded 2011 with OPTIC, the Senegalese government, World Bank/IFC and Orange/Sonatel, has supported nearly 4,000 project leaders and 187 companies …
Sri Lanka's World Bank-backed AHEAD project built University Business Linkage Cells in 15 state universities, generating 228 patent applications, 77 licence agreements …
In 2012–13 the Government of Nepal, World Bank/GFDRR and 1,500+ trained volunteers built Nepal's first open, crowdsourced map of Kathmandu Valley — …
Knife Capital and Thinkroom's year-long Grindstone Accelerator works only with revenue-generating South African SMEs. Independent reporting shows cohorts growing revenue 36-88% and …
Since 2011, Flat6Labs Cairo has run 11+ acceleration cycles from 4,000+ applications; IFC backed the fund with up to $2m, and independent …
Peru's ProInnóvate agency has co-financed 1,400+ innovative startups with S/268m (~$72m) in non-reimbursable grants since 2013; a BID-cited evaluation found a fiscal …
Since 2015 Fukuoka has waived Japan's strict founder-visa capital rules for foreign entrepreneurs under a special economic zone — 247 approved by …
Medellín's city-run MedeINN lab uses public procurement for innovation to pilot fixes for municipal challenges — 350 rural residents connected to the …
University of Porto's science park has supported 700+ projects and 98 graduated companies since 2007; an independent 2024 economic-impact study found its …
Bulgaria's first state science & technology park (opened 2015, EUR 42.7m investment, EUR 36.3m EU-funded) now hosts a EuroHPC supercomputer and was …
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+ …
South Korea's oldest and largest government R&D cluster links public research institutes (KAIST, ETRI, KRISS) with industry — 2,347 tenant organisations and …
South Korea's premier technology cluster — the 'Silicon Valley of Asia'. 1,622 companies and 73,000+ knowledge workers generated combined revenues of KRW …
Norway's largest science park by companies hosted — 300+ tenants and 3,000+ people on Oslo's Blindern campus adjacent to UiO and Oslo …
Prague’s first major affordable housing scheme builds 700+ apartments for public service workers — teachers, nurses, police — at rents 20% below …
MaRS (est. 2000) is Canada's flagship urban innovation hub in Toronto. By 2022, ventures it supported had created 33,000+ jobs, raised $19B …
CityZone is Israel's first urban-tech living lab at Park Atidim, co-run by Tel Aviv Municipality, Tel Aviv University and Park Atidim. A …
Kazakhstan's government-established international technopark, founded 2018, grew from 130 applicants in year one to 1,600 registered IT companies by end-2024, including 425+ …
Africa’s first internationally accredited science and technology park, operating since 2001 in Tshwane. In FY2023/24 it created 389 jobs, supported 64 market-ready …
Founded in 2008 in Accra by the Meltwater Foundation, MEST combines a fully funded one-year tech-entrepreneur programme with seed capital and incubation; …
Japan's first National Strategic Special Zone for global startup creation (December 2014), pioneering the country's startup visa for foreign entrepreneurs. Fukuoka Growth …
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 …
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