The Carbon Neutral Skies project will provide a platform for stakeholders to identify economic measures to facilitate the implementation of carbon management strategies for the aviation industry that enable the industry to reach its carbon reduction goals and targets while minimizing competitive distortion among operators, countries and regions.
Technology Pioneers
The Technology Pioneer Companies for 2013 are (alphabetical order): AlienVault, Anhui LIGOO New Energy Technology, Azuri Technologies, Coulomb Technologies, Enphase Energy, Ingenuity Systems, LanzaTech, Liquid Robotics, Lookout Mobile Security, mc10, Mind Candy, PassivSystems, Practice Fusion, PrimeSense, Promethean Power Systems, RightScale, shopkick, SoundCloud, Tobii Technology, Transphorm, va-Q-tec, Vidyo and Voltea
The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers programme recognizes companies, normally in a start-up phase, from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies, and hold promise of significantly impacting the way business and society operate.
Technology Pioneers must demonstrate visionary leadership and show signs of being long-standing market leaders – their technology must be proven. Each year, hundreds of innovative companies from around the world are reviewed, with approximately 30 selected as Technology Pioneers in the following three categories:
- Information Technologies and New Media
- Energy and Environment
- Life Sciences and Health
Technology Pioneers are selected on a yearly basis through a rigorous process. A selection committee - composed of technology experts from leading academic institutions, venture capital firms and technology incubators, as well as entrepreneurs and Forum Members and Partners - evaluate candidates against the programme’s criteria.
Since 2000, more than 400 innovative companies from five continents have been selected as Technology Pioneers. Among them, the large majority are still thriving independently while others have been acquired by industry leaders.
For updates on our current activities, please visit our Technology Pioneers blog here.
Find out about the 2013 Technology Pioneers including their profiles and how they are using cutting edge technology to improve the state of the world. Here are the Technology Pioneers from 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007.
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November 5, 2010Carbon neutral skies
The Carbon Neutral Skies project will provide a platform for stakeholders to identify economic measures to facilitate the implementation of carbon management strategies for the aviation industry that enable the industry to reach its carbon reduction goals and targets while minimizing competitive distortion among operators, countries and regions.
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November 5, 2010Low-carbon energy infrastructure and land use
The Task Force on Low-Carbon Economic Prosperity, convened by the World Economic Forum at the invitation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters 2009, brings together over 80 global companies and over 40 experts and organizations.
As governments of the major economies are gearing up to spend a combined amount of about US$ 3 trillion to stimulate growth, one thing is crystal clear: to ensure our future prosperity, we need a high-growth and low-carbon economy. To that end, a set of practical policies and incentives is urgently required to help remove ...
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October 23, 2010International Trade
“Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities” finds that reducing supply chain barriers can increase global GDP up to 6 times more than removing all import tariffs. Such large increases in GDP would be associated with positive effects on unemployment, potentially adding millions of jobs to the global workforce. The report builds on eighteen industry case examples, spanning multiple industries and regions, to understand on-the-ground implications of supply chain barriers and the policy implications resulting. Companies must recognize and manage supply chain costs, and ...
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October 22, 2010mHealth
Emerging mobile platforms and the rapid progress in medical technologies are poised to trigger more accessible health services in the decade to come.
Mobile Health (or m-health) is the cover-all term for the use of mobile devices in the healthcare arena. The key benefit of mobile devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) or mobile phones is in the way it enable communication and the delivery of medical information between practitioners and patients.
Mobile health may be of particular benefit in the developed world where hand-held devices and other mobile ...
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- Seminconductor Today - Transphorm Inc. nominated as TP2-13
- IT News – World Economic Forum selected its 2013 Technology Pioneers in the areas of information technology
- Money Control.com - First Energy is also listed among the top 25 Technology Pioneers of 2012 by the World Economic Forum
- New Zealand Herald - LanzaTech lauded by world forum
- 3News New Zealand - World Economic Forum honors Lanzatech
- 3News New Zealand – LanzaTech recognized for game changing biofuel technology
- Energy Live News - UK smart homes firm wins global award
- Enhances Online news - Tobii Named 2013 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
- The Huffington Post - Technology Pioneers 2013: World Economic Forum Names The Year's 23 Most Innovative Startups
- Tech Crunch -Shopkick, SoundCloud, And Lookout Named Technology Pioneers By The World Economic Forum
- The Herald online (California)
- USA Politics Today - World Economic Forum Recognizes Liquid Robotics' Co-Founder, Roger Hine, as One of the World's Top Technology Pioneers for 2013
- Keeping the Sea Safe from Plastic
- Adobe Adds 400 Kilowatts of Bloom Fuel Cells
- Financial Times - Solid solutions
- TechCrunch - CloudFlare, Dropbox, Palantir And Kickstarter Named Technology Pioneers By The World Economic Forum
- Narinder Singh, Appirio - Summer Davos in Dalian - Inevitability of Transformative Change
- Andrew Thompson, Proteus Biomedical - Speak Frankly, but Don't Go Over the Net
- An Italian Fuel Cell Maker That Feeds Itself Pushes into Emerging Markets