Freiburg turned a former barracks into a ~5,500-resident district with parking-free streets and edge-of-district garages; city data report 172 cars per 1,000 …
Seoul removed an elevated expressway and daylighted a buried stream (2003–05). Reported results: 3.3–5.9°C cooler than a parallel road, PM10 down 35%, …
Since 2013, DTI has installed 3,500+ shared-equipment facilities nationwide, reaching 600,000+ Filipino MSMEs — though the sole independent review called the productivity …
Côte d'Ivoire's investment agency merged company registration, tax and social-security formalities into one window (GUFE), cutting business creation from 40 days to …
Since 2013, Ecuador's AEI has coordinated 185 public, private and academic allies to support entrepreneurs, reporting 15,000+ entrepreneurs assisted, 3,325 jobs and …
Technovera's Pelebox smart lockers, backed by South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency, let clinic patients collect chronic medication via SMS one-time password in …
A Horizon 2020 'Teaming' partnership with Imperial College London turned a University of Cyprus ICT research group into the country's largest critical-infrastructure …
Nicosia, Cyprus
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%71/100
A UK government-backed scheme pairing free technology advice, leadership training and matched grants to help North West England manufacturing SMEs adopt digital …
Manchester, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
UNDP's City Experiment Fund has used Stepanavan, Armenia as a recurring test site since 2021 for systems-thinking urban pilots. An independently documented …
Stepanavan, Armenia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Since 1998, the EU's Twinning instrument has paired public administrations in member states with counterparts in candidate and partner countries on €1-4m …
A German federal-state programme giving individual coaching to women and men re-entering the labour market after multi-year family-care breaks, with ESF-monitored outcome …
Berlin, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Since 2015, OK Lab Stuttgart's open-source, ~€30 particulate-matter sensor kit has been rebuilt by volunteers into tens of thousands of live stations …
Stuttgart, Germany
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Palau linked its corporate and secured-transactions registries into one online platform run by its Financial Institutions Commission, built on a shared system …
Koror, Palau
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 39%71/100
Since 2014 South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups has subsidised smart-factory conversions for SMEs. Government survey data and an independent matched-sample …