What to include in a pitch deck?
When commercialising a new technology, one of your most critical tools is pitching. A pitch is a short presentation, typically 3-5 minutes, in which you grab attention towards your project. Innovators usually have a specific goal when pitching, often to get meetings with potential investors. During that meeting, you can explain the technology in detail. For the pitch, it is best to […]
Santander X Global Challenges
The Santander X Global Challenges are one of Banco Santander’s flagship programmes to support the most innovative startups and scaleups across their footprint countries in Europe, the USA and Latin America. Every year, three themed Challenges call for innovative, technology-driven businesses to compete for a cash prize, mentoring support and access to Santander X 100 […]
Bridging international ecosystems: lessons from Oxentia’s internationalisation accelerator experience
Startups from developing ecosystems often struggle to internationalise, and often if they do, it’s by moving their entire operation to a different country. This is a significant issue in development innovation, where ecosystem progression is stifled by talent and innovation flight towards resource-rich ecosystems. There are plenty of examples of high-potential ecosystems – Turkiye, Malaysia, […]
Impact at scale: the SHAPE opportunity
The commercialisation of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities for People and the Economy (SHAPE) cannot be considered peripheral to innovation, it is central to how innovation actually works in advanced and emerging Research and Innovation (R&I) ecosystems. In economies dominated by services, public systems and people‑centred solutions, SHAPE research underpins how value is created, scaled […]
The Testing Truth – How an ecosystem moves from knowledge production to international leadership
The Philippines’ innovation ecosystem is at a crossroads. Since 2013, often cited as the baseline year for the country’s knowledge economy growth, the Philippines has climbed over 40 places in the Global Innovation Index, and the country’s knowledge output, measured via proxy indicator (number of patents filed), has also steadily increased. Yet, many gaps in […]