47 Financing Innovation and New Technologies

AXEL P. MUSTAD / ATOMIQ AS

Most regions don’t have critical mass to foster innovation, creating knowledge asymmetries and holding back entrepreneurial mindsets. By creating virtual eco-systems that bring together the full range of disciplines and sectors to mentor, support and collaborate on excellent science, talented investigators and innovative SME will have full support at their fingertips to translate excellence into innovation. Innovation starts at the basic science, and conversely new ideas form in the market - we need to tie these worlds together so that the knowledge journey has no gaps, particularly in complex markets such as healthcare and medicine, technology, energy. By doing this, we reduce both perceived risk - thereby creating more entrepreneurs - and real risk, by helping talented researchers access users, gatekeepers, funders, regulators and more.

To accelerate the development of deep tech at scale, a global democratic and transparent financing system for science based innovation is urgently needed. By providing a global stock exchange for deep tech startups, retail and institutional investors alike can invest in the private equity class at scale. This will increase the availability of assets for investment in the private equity class worldwide, effectively financing more deep tech innovation.A distinguishing and truly disruptive feature is the provision of liquidity, allowing investors to engage in short term private equity trading.

INNOVATIVE SME