Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets

Deep tech companies aim to address the world’s biggest challenges. These include providing Internet access to the unconnected, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, significantly increasing productivity gains across industries, and helping to solve ma...

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Main Authors: Nedayvoda, Anastasia, Mockel, Peter, Graf, Lana
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/161011606381111160/Deep-Tech-Solutions-for-Emerging-Markets
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spelling okr-10986-348592021-04-23T14:02:10Z Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets Nedayvoda, Anastasia Mockel, Peter Graf, Lana EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEEP TECHNOLOGY MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT Deep tech companies aim to address the world’s biggest challenges. These include providing Internet access to the unconnected, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, significantly increasing productivity gains across industries, and helping to solve many other intractable problems, particularly in emerging market and developing economies. A deep tech company brings transformative technology from the lab to the market, and democratized research infrastructure and increased available funding has led to the rise of deep tech companies globally, including in emerging markets. Yet commercialization is critical to realizing the benefits of deep tech solutions, and deep tech firms often struggle to successfully commercialize their breakthroughs. Strengthening local ecosystems and investing in deep technologies are critical to overcoming this common obstacle. As development finance institutions, institutional investors, and private equity and venture capital investors explore longer-term investment strategies, deep tech commercialization offers not a tech-enabled silver bullet but a holistic approach to investing in technology solutions. 2020-12-02T18:13:56Z 2020-12-02T18:13:56Z 2020-11 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/161011606381111160/Deep-Tech-Solutions-for-Emerging-Markets http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34859 English EMCompass;Note 94 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo International Finance Corporation International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief South Asia India
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topic EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DEEP TECHNOLOGY
MACHINE LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION
TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT
spellingShingle EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DEEP TECHNOLOGY
MACHINE LEARNING
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION
TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION
TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT
Nedayvoda, Anastasia
Mockel, Peter
Graf, Lana
Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets
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India
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description Deep tech companies aim to address the world’s biggest challenges. These include providing Internet access to the unconnected, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, significantly increasing productivity gains across industries, and helping to solve many other intractable problems, particularly in emerging market and developing economies. A deep tech company brings transformative technology from the lab to the market, and democratized research infrastructure and increased available funding has led to the rise of deep tech companies globally, including in emerging markets. Yet commercialization is critical to realizing the benefits of deep tech solutions, and deep tech firms often struggle to successfully commercialize their breakthroughs. Strengthening local ecosystems and investing in deep technologies are critical to overcoming this common obstacle. As development finance institutions, institutional investors, and private equity and venture capital investors explore longer-term investment strategies, deep tech commercialization offers not a tech-enabled silver bullet but a holistic approach to investing in technology solutions.
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author Nedayvoda, Anastasia
Mockel, Peter
Graf, Lana
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Graf, Lana
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title Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets
title_short Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets
title_full Deep Tech Solutions for Emerging Markets
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publisher International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/161011606381111160/Deep-Tech-Solutions-for-Emerging-Markets
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