Brazil's Embrapa runs a formal four-phase technology-transfer and impact-assessment pipeline for its agricultural research. Its 2021 evaluation of 152 projects found R$18 …
Brasília, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%71/100
Since 1975, the Philippines' DOST has brought home nearly 700 Filipino scientists for R&D stints; Republic Act 11035 (2018) institutionalised tax breaks, …
Banco ADOPEM and researchers randomly assigned 1,193 Santo Domingo microentrepreneurs to standard accounting training, simplified rule-of-thumb training, or none. The simplified course …
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Sierra Leone's presidential innovation directorate built a biometric national digital ID now held by over 5 million citizens, using local community brokers …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Puerto Rico's government-backed accelerator has graduated 500+ startups since 2015, generating $502.3M in cumulative revenue and over 800 jobs, with 40% of …
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 42%71/100
Since 2012, France's 13 regional SATT companies have pooled university and public-lab patents into single professional transfer offices, filing 4,300+ patents and …
A psychology-based 'personal initiative' training for 1,500 Lomé microentrepreneurs raised monthly profits 30% within 2.5 years and USD 91 (52%) after 7 …
India's subsidised Lean Manufacturing Scheme embeds certified lean consultants in MSME factories. A pilot across 89 mini-clusters reported a 20% productivity gain, …
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: Observational / pre–post
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, …