University of Tokyo's wholly-owned VC arm has raised two ~JPY25bn funds since 2016, backed 50+ deep-tech spinouts (3 IPOs) and helped grow …
Since 2019, Slovenia's national digitalisation-voucher system has co-financed digital marketing, strategy, competency and cybersecurity projects for SMEs — over 5,577 vouchers approved …
Nairobi's first major open tech innovation space, founded in 2010 with Omidyar Network and Hivos backing, catalysing Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' developer and …
Since 2011, KiwiNet has pooled New Zealand's university and Crown Research Institute commercialisation efforts, backing 82+ spin-outs and $560m in cumulative returns …
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has produced 620 spin-offs since 1973, including 37 in 2024 that raised CHF 425M and a 93% five-year …
Mexico City's 'Ministry of Imagination' ran 50+ civic experiments in five years, including Mapatón: 3,594 citizens crowdsourced GPS data to map 51,308km …
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has helped create roughly 500 university spin-offs since 1996. An independent 2020 University of St Gallen study of …
Colombia paired 4,000+ small and mid-size firms across all 32 departments with productivity experts; an independent Fedesarrollo evaluation of 1,035 firms found …
Since 2007, KTH Innovation has met more than 400 new-idea teams a year and helped launch over 450 companies that together raised …
Regional innovation agency jointly founded by the City of Brno, the South Moravian Region and four Brno universities to bridge academic research …
Japan's METI-led SME Productivity Revolution Programme has run since 2018 (JPY 340bn FY2024 budget). Results are mixed: the IT subsidy gave a …
Jointly owned by the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Inven2 is the Nordic region's largest technology-transfer office: in its first …
Sweden's oldest and largest science park, founded in Lund in 1983 by the university, region and city, is where Ericsson developed Bluetooth; …
Founded in 2008, the University of Waterloo's Velocity incubator has supported 400+ companies whose alumni had raised $4.3bn and created 5,000+ jobs …
Created in 1986 by Fundação CERTI as Brazil's first tech-business incubator, CELTA has graduated 118 companies generating ~800 direct jobs and R$67m/year …
Korea's founding Special R&D Zone (est. 1973): 29 government institutes and 5 universities generate over 7,000 patents a year and account for …
Founded in 1959 as the Weizmann Institute's commercial arm, Yeda has generated over USD 2 billion in licensing revenue in a recent …
Since 1993, this private foundation next to ETH Zurich has hosted ~260 tech companies and 2,800 jobs on one campus; ETH's associated …
In 2024, DTU registered 14 spin-out companies — 48% of Denmark's national record of 29 university spin-outs that year — plus 60 …
IIT Madras's incubation and technology-transfer ecosystem in Chennai has incubated 567 startups (2 unicorns, ₹74,100cr/~US$8bn portfolio) and filed 431 patents in FY2025-26, …
Taiwan's flagship semiconductor science park, home to TSMC and UMC — 584 companies employing 177,000+ workers generated NT$1.51 trillion (~US$46bn) in 2024 …
Regional innovation agency turning Brno's university research base into companies via three sector incubators and a venture fund; contributed to 3,500+ skilled …
Iceland's main national business-accelerator body, tracing to a 2000 corporate innovation centre and a 2007 student-led non-profit merged in 2013, has drawn …
DTU's university-run innovation hub has produced roughly 850 new businesses since 2013 (about 80 a year); by 2024, DTU-founded startups had attracted …
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