Not exact matches
The Company manages over $ 100 million
of funds investing in
areas where true scientific
innovations, the unmet medical need, and the
potential to demonstrate a significant proof
of concept all come together.
GFI's
innovation department has two primary
areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success
of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list
of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list
of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many
of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding
of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion
of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.
If we look at technology, one
area of innovation that has
potential for a big impact is the technology around big data, blockchain and transparent transaction models.
Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and
Innovation Impact
of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output
of research papers and particularly active
areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic
potential based on
innovation and patenting.
Indeed, its
potential applications impact various
areas that have in common a high degree
of innovation.
«Deep learning approaches have just started to be applied for agricultural applications, and we foresee a huge
potential of such technologies for future
innovations in this
area,» says Jian Peng, assistant professor in the Department
of Computer Science at U
of I, and a co-author and co-principal investigator
of the new study.
The two sides agree that there exists an enormous
potential for cooperation in a remarkably broad range
of areas, such as: research programming, training and mobility
of researchers, science education, open publishing, technology transfer,
innovation, building next generation infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) and global scientific cooperation.
All have demonstrated the
potential to be outstanding professionals who can assume leadership positions in many different
areas of higher education and can be collaborative practitioners facilitating change and
innovation.