Teaching Entrepreneurship — FINCA Peru's Village-Bank Business Training Trial
A randomised trial added entrepreneurship training to 239 FINCA Peru village banks (4,591 mostly female clients) in Lima and Ayacucho. Short-term sales …
A randomised trial added entrepreneurship training to 239 FINCA Peru village banks (4,591 mostly female clients) in Lima and Ayacucho. Short-term sales …
Slovakia's SIEA gave SMEs €1,000–€5,000 vouchers for creative-industry services. A matched study of 72 supported firms found sales grew 2.64x and assets …
Taiwan's ITRI, a non-profit applied-research institute founded in 1973, transferred RCA semiconductor technology into two direct spin-offs — UMC (1980) and TSMC …
Austria's KMU.DIGITAL grant, jointly run by WKO and aws since 2017, has funded over 25,000 SME digitalisation initiatives; since its 2024 relaunch …
Slovenia's SPS ran four SME digitalisation-voucher tracks (2019–2023), completing 759 projects worth ~EUR 11 million, with 63% of funds weighted toward the …
NUS's Technology Transfer and Innovation office has helped secure more than 760 patents and spin off over 120 technology-based companies in five …
JIC, a public-university start-up and technology-transfer agency in Brno (founded 2003, co-owned by the region, city and four universities), has incubated 100+ …
Founded in 1964, Yissum — Hebrew University of Jerusalem's tech-transfer company — has registered over 10,500 patents and licensed 1,000+ technologies. Independent …
ETH Zurich's technology-transfer office has produced 583 spin-offs since 1973 with a 93% five-year survival rate, but its outlier funding base limits …
Founded in 2003 by Brno, the South Moravian Region and four universities after factory closures, JIC's incubators grew enrolled firms' turnover 9x …
UniQuest, University of Queensland's tech-transfer firm since 1984, licensed the Gardasil HPV-vaccine IP and creates spin-outs. Audited UQ accounts confirm rising Gardasil …
NUS Enterprise's Technology Transfer office licenses NUS research to industry and incubates spin-offs. Its GRIP programme helped ~100 spin-offs raise almost SGD …
Central and Eastern Europe's first innovation and technology park, launched in 1996 by two Budapest universities and the Hungarian government, has grown …
In 2019 KAIST's tech-transfer office earned KRW 10.18 billion (about $8.6m) in royalties from 56 licensing contracts — the highest of any …
Active since 1997, Medicon Valley Alliance is the cross-border cluster for the Øresund life-science region (Eastern Denmark, Southern Sweden) — 400+ companies, …
Switzerland's first tech-transfer science park (opened 1993 for ETH spin-offs): by 2017 it had ~280 resident firms and ~1,800 jobs on its …
Inven2, the University of Oslo/Oslo University Hospital's technology transfer office, helped launch 55 start-ups and sign 388 licence agreements between 2010 and …
Action Greensboro's Boomerang Greensboro campaign (2021–) helps former residents relocate back to the city; an independent Lightcast study of confirmed returnees found …
One of South-East Europe's largest knowledge-commercialisation ecosystems: 300+ resident companies and ~1,500 employees across 75,000 m², with 500+ high-value jobs created and …
Japan's flagship planned science city since 1963, Tsukuba concentrates dozens of national research institutes and ~20,000 researchers spending nearly half of Japan's …
Since its 2001 launch, Singapore's 200-hectare one-north estate — Biopolis and Fusionopolis — has grown to 400+ companies and 50,000+ knowledge workers …
A NOK 1 billion oncology innovation park opened in 2015 next to Oslo University Hospital's Radium Hospital now hosts about 100 member …
Since 2011, NUS Enterprise's BLOCK71 has anchored Singapore's one-north district, hosting 747 of a global 1,152 incubated startups by 2021 and drawing …
Since 1993, this Zürich-West science park has co-located ETH Zurich spin-offs with established tech firms. It now hosts roughly 260 companies and …
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