FITD — North Macedonia's Government Innovation Fund Turning Grants into VC-Backed Startups
Since 2013, North Macedonia's state Fund for Innovation and Technological Development has backed over 800 projects worth more than €100M. Grantee Pixyle.ai …
Since 2013, North Macedonia's state Fund for Innovation and Technological Development has backed over 800 projects worth more than €100M. Grantee Pixyle.ai …
In April 2020 Vilnius let cafés and bars use squares and streets free of charge for distanced outdoor seating so hospitality could …
Since connecting to the Southern Cross fibre cable in 2000, Fiji has built an outsourcing sector now employing around 9,000 people and …
Guyana's 2021 Local Content Act requires oil operators to use, train and grow Guyanese-owned suppliers — 51% minimum local ownership, up to …
Since 2018 Bermuda's insurance regulator has run a two-track Sandbox and Innovation Hub for InsurTech: of 70 companies engaged, 12 entered the …
A World Bank facility guaranteed $32.6m in PNG SME loans (46% of target) via the country's largest bank, 2012-2017 — a sum …
Bolivia's first dedicated tech-startup incubation bootcamp, run by state bank Banco Unión with Fundación Emprender Futuro, has drawn over 9,000 applications, trained …
A 2006–2008 RCT with 1,193 Banco ADOPEM clients in Santo Domingo tested simplified 'rule-of-thumb' financial training against standard accounting courses. Rule-of-thumb trainees …
Brunei's first ICT business incubator, run by the Economic Development Board (now Darussalam Enterprise) inside the government-built Anggerek Desa Technology Park, has …
A randomized experiment gave free Accenture consulting to 20 Mumbai textile plants; adopting standard management practices raised productivity 11% in year one …
Manama's fintech hub, launched 2018 with the Central Bank of Bahrain's sandbox, helped incubate 116+ startups. Graduates Tarabut Gateway and Rain later …
TUMO is a free, privately funded after-school tech and creative-arts program in Yerevan, replicated in 15+ countries. An independent 2023 evaluation found …
Since 2019, Portugal's Programa Regressar has given returning emigrants a 50% income-tax break for five years plus IEFP grants; applications hit 36,000+ …
A $30M World Bank IDA grant funded 526 matching grants and rural infrastructure for tourism and agribusiness MSMEs in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan and …
San Salvador's metropolitan planning office (OPAMSS) won an IDB Cities Lab challenge and, with two universities and City Adapt, piloted low-cost green-infrastructure …
Barbados' 12-month remote-work visa, launched April 2020, drew 8,199 applications and 1,381 paid visas by 2023 (min. US$50,000 household income), earning at …
A US$7.5M EU–IDB Lab Innovation Challenge Facility executed by CARIRI has funded 34 Trinidad & Tobago SMEs across two competitive calls (15 …
A fully-funded INCAE accelerator gave 40 Honduran women SME leaders management training and mentoring; 27 of them raised monthly sales by an …
Seoul deployed S-DoT, a network of 1,100 IoT sensors measuring 17 variables every 2 minutes since 2019; a 2020-21 analysis found downtown …
Pakistan's national applied-research council operates laboratory complexes across seven cities, patenting and leasing industrial processes to private companies — 96 processes leased …
Founded in 2011 as 'Malagasy i-Hub' by independent web professionals, Habaka runs Madagascar's longest-standing tech coworking/incubation space, reporting support for roughly 80 …
Opened in 2019, the University of Zimbabwe's Innovation Hub has moved 40 enrolled researcher-innovators into 21 graduate start-ups and 15 registered business …
After Kenya's 2010 devolution, Makueni County built a six-tier participatory budgeting process from village to county level. By FY2016/17, World Bank data …
Since Ley 170-07 (2007), Dominican municipalities must decide part of their capital-investment budget through open community assemblies. Adoption spread from 59 municipalities …
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