Sweden's state-owned Almi Företagspartner runs loans, equity and advisory across 16 regions; government counterfactual studies found Almi-financed firms grew revenue by SEK …
Stockholm, Sweden
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
CEMR and the Association of Ukrainian Cities paired 30 Ukrainian municipalities with 30 EU counterparts for reconstruction-focused peer learning, producing 48 joint …
Kyiv, Ukraine
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
A former U.S. Canal Zone military base became a Panamanian innovation district that in 2024 hosted 34 international organisations and 135 tech/education …
Panama City, Panama
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%71/100
Vietnam's ICT ministry curates and promotes vetted digital-management, cybersecurity and e-commerce platforms for small firms; by October 2024 over 401,000 SMEs were …
Hanoi, Vietnam
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Launched March 2024, Dakar's 18.3km BRT runs 144 electric buses between Dakar and Guédiawaye, targeting 300,000 daily passengers and cutting the journey …
Dakar, Senegal
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 39%71/100
A Science-published RCT in Lomé assigned 1,500 microfinance clients to psychology-based 'personal initiative' training, traditional business training, or no training; initiative training …
Denmark's seven GTS institutes are non-profit bodies under multi-year government performance contracts to diffuse applied technological knowledge to Danish firms; in 2024 …
Copenhagen, Denmark
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%71/100
iNNpulsa Colombia's ZASCA reindustrialisation centres and ALDEA network reached over 20,000 micro and small businesses in 2024. Medellín's first ZASCA cohort raised …
Bogotá, Colombia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%71/100
Since 2014, Malawi's donor-backed Innovation Challenge Fund has matched over 50 private firms' innovation costs, helping create more than 2,000 jobs and …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 39%71/100
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 39%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 39%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 39%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 …