What works in Lahore
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Evidence snapshot for Lahore
National Incubation Center (NIC) Lahore reports incubating 350+ startups since its December 2017 launch at LUMS, with the portfolio raising approximately Rs5 billion (~US$18 million) and generating around Rs1 billion in revenue, though these are organizational self-reports without independent impact evaluation. The centre incubates roughly 50 startups and accelerates around 10 per year, with about 25% women-led. Plan9, another government-backed incubator based at Arfa Software Technology Park in Lahore, reported graduating 160 startups with a combined valuation of roughly US$70 million, though independent reporting indicates nationwide startup failure rates of 60-80% within three years, pointing to weak product-market fit and thin follow-on capital as main causes.
Drawn from: JudgeGPT — a Nationwide Randomized Trial of Generative AI for Pakistan's Trial-Court Judges · Plan9 — Pakistan's Largest Government-Backed Tech Incubator · National Incubation Center (NIC) Lahore — Pakistan's Government-Backed Startup Incubator · Punjab's AI Facial-Recognition ‘Face Trace System’ for Police Suspect Identification · University of the Punjab's AI Admission Assistant Chatbot
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
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No standout strengths yet.
Weaknesses
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Innovation -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Equity & inclusion -21 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of learning impact -30 pts 0 here · 30 average
Sustainability / continuity -30 pts 50 here · 80 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -39 pts 0 here · 39 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -50 pts 0 here · 50 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Lahore. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
JudgeGPT — a Nationwide Randomized Trial of Generative AI for Pakistan's Trial-Court Judges · 80
Plan9 — Pakistan's Largest Government-Backed Tech Incubator · 57
National Incubation Center (NIC) Lahore — Pakistan's Government-Backed Startup Incubator · 57
Punjab's AI Facial-Recognition ‘Face Trace System’ for Police Suspect Identification · 33
University of the Punjab's AI Admission Assistant Chatbot · 13
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
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Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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