17 Innovative Funds are Mobilizing Resources for People and Planet
The World Economic Forum website reported that the world is running out of time to meet its net-zero sustainability targets, and business as usual will not help us reach the UN’s 2030 goals. That’s why earlier this year, UpLink, the World Economic Forum’s open innovation platform, launched a challenge targeting Venture Capitalists (VCs) and investment
Comments Off on 17 Innovative Funds are Mobilizing Resources for People and Planet • Read this story »
More Articles
HCL and UpLink Call for Applications for Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative
Yahoo! reported that HCL, a global conglomerate and UpLink, the open innovation platform of the World Economic Forum, have announced that applications have opened for the Global Freshwater Innovation Challenge. This is the first out of five Challenges of the HCL and UpLink’s Aquapreneur Innovation
Comments Off on HCL and UpLink Call for Applications for Aquapreneur Innovation Initiative • Read this story »
Meet the Innovators: UpLink
The World Economic Forum website noted that investing in innovation and entrepreneurship is critical to make progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In this livestreamed session, some of the most exciting entrepreneurs to come through the World Economic Forum’s open innovation platform, UpLink,
Comments Off on Meet the Innovators: UpLink • Read this story »
We Need Global and Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
The World Economic Forum website reported that “we need to build purpose-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems that will provide not only capital, but also mentors, policies and initiatives to connect investors and entrepreneurs with each other to share knowledge, experience, and most importantly create
Comments Off on We Need Global and Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurial Ecosystems • Read this story »
How Can Investors Help Us Get to Net-zero?
The World Economic Forum website reported that the world is rapidly running out of time to meet its net-zero and sustainability targets. So the World Economic Forum’s open innovation platform UpLink is targeting venture capital investors in its latest challenge in a bid to speed up this transition.
Comments Off on How Can Investors Help Us Get to Net-zero? • Read this story »
The United States of Amazon and Its Flywheel Economy
The BBN Times website noted that Tech Giants include Apple Facebook, and Google … but Amazon’s unique flywheel makes it the torchbearer. AWS alone is on track to be worth $1 trillion. The Amazon flywheel fuels a circular, data-driven ecosystem that’s bolstered by Open Innovation. Amazon
Comments Off on The United States of Amazon and Its Flywheel Economy • Read this story »
Our Future Relies on More Inclusive and Transparent Innovation
An article on the World Economic Forum website noted that across the tech sector, the gap between imagination and reality remains too wide. Nobody disputes that new technologies have the potential to make the world a more sustainable, and creative place to live. The innovation environment, however, doesn’t
Comments Off on Our Future Relies on More Inclusive and Transparent Innovation • Read this story »
New Open Innovation Service
The EBN website announced the launch of a new open innovation service aimed at helping innovative Startups & SMEs. The Service aims to help the thousands of innovative, high potential Startups & SMEs in the highly active and vibrant ecosystem of Innovation Centers across Europe, to develop
Comments Off on New Open Innovation Service • Read this story »
Chesbrough: Inside-out and Outside-in Innovation
In this interview at the World Economic Forum, Henry Chesbrough explains how corporations can all benefit from open innovation. This is true both from the outside in — leveraging external ideas and technology to reduce costs and time spent in research and, more crucially, from inside out, making
Comments Off on Chesbrough: Inside-out and Outside-in Innovation • Read this story »