Technology Pioneers

 I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society

--------Henry David Thoreau 1817-62 (American writer)

Even the largest companies need partners.

Innovation partnerships offer many advantages; 

They offset R&D costs 

Add expertise and flexibility  

Help create new markets 

Accelerate innovation and commercialization timelines

The fact is, innovation is complex and risky, and collaboration can make it riskier. Partners need to devise new ways of fostering trust and openness, managing risk, and communicating opportunity. 

More specifically, they have to: 

1) Establish Rules of Engagement - assigning ownership of IP and the right to commercialize or benefit from the results of their collaborations, 

2) Devise fair and effective dispute resolution systems - partners should acknowledge formally that disagreements and disputes are likely to arise 

3) Figure out how to allocate risk and financial burden - all participants to take risks proportional to the potential benefits being offered to them

Some Companies to consider for Partnerships,

Technology Pioneers for 2022:

Africa

-Access Afya (Kenya) – High-quality healthcare for the global mass market

-Ampersand (Rwanda) – Africa's leading battery-swap energy network for light vehicles

-Okra (Nigeria) – Digitalizing financial services for Africa

-Sendy (Kenya) – Building fulfilment infrastructure for e-commerce and consumer brands

Asia Pacific

-Allinfra (China) – Building technology to help institutions achieve their climate goals

-Authing (China) – Enterprise's next-generation information technology identity infrastructure

-EMQ (Singapore) – Enabling real-time, secure and affordable financial services for everyone, everywhere

-Okra Solar (Australia) – Developing hardware and software for sustainable last-mile energy access

-Pandocorp (India) – Making supply chain execution intelligent with a fast logistics cloud

-Qcraft (China) – Autonomous driving solutions for easy autonomous application with rapid iteration

-XCharge (China) – All-in-one smart electric vehicle charging solution pioneer

-YesHealth (China) – Building the world's largest and most efficient vertical farms

Europe

-Beenova AI (UK) – Scaling education through conversational learning powered by artificial intelligence

-Betteries (Germany) – Upcycling electric vehicle batteries into affordable mobile power systems

-Citibeats (Spain) – Ethical artificial intelligence big data analysis

-Collective Benefits (UK) – Insurance and benefits platform for independent work

-Mission Space (Luxembourg) – A private satellite-based space weather intelligence system

-Oxford Quantum Circuits (UK) – Building quantum computers to enable life-changing discoveries

-Roboze (Italy) – Reshaping manufacturing with a new distributed production model

-ROCSOLE (Finland) – Insights from harsh process conditions improving industry operational efficiency

-Somnium Space (UK) – Open, social and persistent virtual reality platform powered by blockchain

-Twin Science (UK) – Developing children's skills through purpose-led STEM learning

-Wolfprint 3D (Estonia) – Cross-app avatar platform for the metaverse

Latin America

-microTERRA (Mexico) – Powering the plant-based future

-Pomelo (Argentina) – Infrastructure to launch and scale fintech in Latin America

Middle East and North Africa

-Eureka Security (Israel) – A data security posture management platform

-HawKar (Tunisia) – An innovative start-up aimed at people with reduced mobility

-OCON Healthcare (Israel) – 3D uterine drug delivery to fit women's anatomy

North America

-Alife (USA) – An IVF operating system to improve outcomes and fertility care

-Aliro Quantum (USA) – Quantum networks for physics-based secure communication and scalable quantum computing

-Butlr Technologies (USA) – Making the built environment people-aware

-Credo AI (USA) – Operationalizing responsible artificial intelligence

-Databento (USA) – Pay-as-you-go for financial market data

-Emerge (USA) – Bringing touch and emotion to virtual experiences

-Ignite (USA) – Accelerating the world's transition to a decentralized future

-Journey Foods (USA) – Automating sustainability, nutrition and cost innovation

-Novoloop (USA) – Upcycling company creating chemicals and materials made from plastic

-Oolu (USA) – Distributing solar energy solutions in West Africa

-Recuro Health (USA) – Pre-emptive digital medical care to lower costs and improve outcomes

-Resilinc (USA) – A leading supply chain risk monitoring, mapping and resiliency solution

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