Stories of Innovation
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
SIGI HERMANS
PERSONAL BRANDING PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Ever since I was a young girl, I have loved photography immensely. In the darkroom I felt like a fish in water. Meanwhile, much has changed. Analogue is (almost) gone and of course I switched to digital a long time ago. Digital or analog, photography remains my greatest passion. I...
INNOVATION Quebec
CDCQ
CCTT IN COMPOSITES DEVELOPMENT
Founded in 1989, the Centre de développement des composites du Québec (CDCQ) is an applied research centre affiliated and integrated with the Cégep de Saint-Jérôme—the only college in Quebec offering a technical program in composite materials engineering. The CDCQ’s research facilities are adjacent to the CEGEP. Our mission and visionThrough...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
CREDIBOM
Working Everyday In The Interest Of Our Customers And Society
As part of the Crédit Agricole Group – one of the largest European banking groups – Credibom is a bank specialized in consumer credit and a leader in Portugal, particularly in automotive financing. Established in 1995, Credibom focus is to adapt its products and services to the needs of its...
INNOVATE® Northern Virginia
MISSIONOVO
PEOPLE FIRST. MISSION ALWAYS.
Introduction In national security, capabilities are proven under pressure; not in theory. Too often, they fail because they were built too far from the mission. Missionovo was founded to close that gap. Three engineers, Grant Kuhnsman, Mike Dobry, and Matt O’Leary, saw the same failures: solutions built without the mission...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
WELCOME TO PHORCE MANAGEMENT GROUP
WHERE WE SHOWCASE THE BEST TALENT AND CONTENT IN GAMING
As a Sport Management professor, I sat and spoke to my students about the various aspects of gaming. Knowing the majority of my classes were filled with gamers, we would have countless discussions about the business and possibilities of esports. From these conversations I saw first hand how limited the...
INNOVATE® Detroit
PURPOSE JOBS
The Startup Storytellers
Everyone has heard about Apple, or Meta, or Uber. But what about StockX, or Autobooks, or KLA? When the economy crashed in 2008, it was standard for Michiganders to graduate from school here and find work in another state. Many flocked to tech jobs on the coasts. But in the...
INNOVATION Quebec
UQAT - NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS
CRÉATION ET NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS
Précurseur dans le domaine de l’enseignement universitaire en jeu vidéo, en création numérique et en création 3D, l’unité d’enseignement et de recherche en création et nouveaux médias de l’UQAT participe au développement des industries numériques et culturelles depuis plus de 20 ans. Répartie entre Montréal et Rouyn-Noranda, l’expertise de l’équipe...
INNOVATE® Maryland
ICaPath
Delivering and tracking immunotherapy with nano level precision
ICaPath is an emerging biotechnology company headquartered at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV) in Baltimore, MD, leveraging this premier academic ecosystem to advance a disruptive nanoparticle-based drug delivery platform. Our core therapeutic asset utilizes biocompatible PLGA nanoparticles to encapsulate highly potent cytokines, small molecules, and genetic constructs. Paired with our...
INNOVATION Quebec
TERRITOIRES INNOVANTS EN ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE ET SOLIDAIRE (TIESS)
CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE SOCIAL INNOVATION AT A TIME!
Propelling Ideas That Have an ImpactTIESS is Quebec’s leading authority on knowledge transfer in the social economy. Its mission? To provide organizations with the tools they need to meet the different challenges facing our society while transforming their practices. Through a continuous process of innovation—whether it be food self-sufficiency, the...
INNOVATION Quebec
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE (RI-MUHC)
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE (RI-MUHC) INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE DU CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MCGILL (IR-CUSM) L’IR-CUSM EST UN ÉCOSYSTÈME DE L’INNOVATION UNIQUE, AFFILIÉ À LA FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE ET DE SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ DE L’UNIVERSITÉ MCGILL. Chef de file mondial en matière de médecine...
INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation
BESTMOW
FOR 250 YEARS, PHILADELPHIA HAS TRANSFORMED IDEAS INTO INFRASTRUCTURE. BESTMOW CONTINUES THAT TRADITION. THIS TIME, THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS AUTONOMOUS.
Engineering the Autonomous Garden Industrial revolutions rarely announce themselves. They begin quietly – inside laboratories, within algorithms, in the convergence of disciplines that once appeared unrelated. BESTMOW represents such a convergence. What appears, on the surface, to be a robotic lawn mower is in fact a distributed low-speed autonomous driving...
INNOVATE® Nashville
Vanderbilt University
Innovation at Vanderbilt
An R1 research institution, Vanderbilt University is known for pathbreaking research, advancing discoveries and fueling breakthroughs across multiple disciplines. With more than $1 billion in annual research expenditures, Vanderbilt fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration with global impact. But Vanderbilt isn’t just a research university, it’s a powerful economic engine that turns ideas...
INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation
HRP GROUP
REIMAGINING A LEGACY SITE
The Bellwether District and Philadelphia’s New Hub for Innovation On 1,300 acres in South and Southwest Philadelphia, a former oil refinery is being transformed into one of the most ambitious redevelopment projects in the United States, with more than 14 million square feet of innovation and industrial space planned. For...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
CARRICK WEALTH
SOMETIMES, THE MOST INNOVATIVE IDEAS ARE ALREADY CLOSE TO HOME
“Innovation” has become a buzzword in businesses the world over. It evokes images of tech bros playing foosball in the office, of millennials taking team calls through AirPods while on the treadmill, and of AI-enhanced systems that can solve problems better than humans. Certainly, a business keeping up with tech...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
B4PLASTICS
Redesigning tomorrow’s plastics. Today.
B4Plastics is a Belgian Biopolymer Tech Company specialised in: Creating (R&D), Producing (up to kton), Selling and Licensing novel biomaterials, based on a unique range of Bio Based Building Blocks (hence the B4), tailored to an extended variety of applications. This Belgian-based company, located in Limburg, is a pioneer in...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLOW
IS FLIPPING THE PROPERTY INDUSTRY
FLOW IS DEMOCRATISING THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY’S ARCHAIC OPERATING MODEL FOR AGENTS, EMPOWERING THEM IN A DIGITAL WORLD AND GIVING BUYER, SELLER AND AGENT THE BENEFIT OF A BETTER, MORE TRANSPARENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE PROCESS. THE FACE OF TECHNOLOGY CAN STILL BE HUMAN – AND FLOW MAKES SURE THAT ESTATE AGENTS...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLUX TRENDS
IS A BOUTIQUE TRENDS CONSULTANCY THAT SPECIALISES IN HELPING COMPANIES TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND WHERE WE ARE HEADED
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
Picketa Systems
REAL-TIME PLANT TISSUE ANALYSIS - MAKE TIMELY INFORMED DECISIONS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR NUTRIENT USE
REAL-TIME PLANT TISSUE ANALYSIS MAKE TIMELY INFORMED DECISIONS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR NUTRIENT USE “Picketa Systems, an agricultural technology company founded in 2020 to unlock agronomic potential, announces its expansion into 13 states across the USA with its groundbreaking LENS system. This innovative real-time crop management technology is poised to transform...
INNOVATION Quebec
SHERBROOKE INNOPOLE
Un organisme SI innovant
Sherbrooke Innopole est l’organisme paramunicipal de développement économique des secteurs industriel et tertiaire-moteur mandaté et financé par la Ville de Sherbrooke. Nous avons pour but de dynamiser l’environnement d’affaires, assurer le rayonnement de Sherbrooke et de ses entreprises sur les scènes locale, nationale et internationale, et de développer les entreprises...
Global Innovation Spotlight
CHAPTER
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare enrollment remains broken, and the program is near-impossible to navigate. Anyone who has signed up for Medicare or helped a loved one knows this reality firsthand. The problem is so bad that nearly 40% of the...
INNOVATE® Detroit
Bamboo
Building a Statewide Ecosystem
Bamboo began in 2013 out of a community movement. It was the first co-working space in Downtown Detroit. The organization’s model has since evolved to develop and operate hubs that serve as centers for entrepreneurship and creativity. When it started, Bamboo borrowed a $5,000 friends-and-family loan and activated a space...
INNOVATE® Georgia
OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
GREAT THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES
Despite being one of the smallest technical colleges in the state, Ogeechee Technical College (OTC) has carved out a significant niche in the educational landscape of Georgia, standing as a beacon of technical education and workforce development. Under the forward-thinking leadership of Lori Durden, the college’s president since 2016, OTC...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
COHO COLLECTIVE KITCHENS
THE SECRET INGREDIENT FOR FOOD ENTREPRENEURS COHO IS REDEFINING THE SPACE-AS-A-SERVICE INDUSTRY AND THE FUTURE OF CULINARY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The shared kitchen industry, also known as commissaries, is a rapidly growing sector that is changing how people think about food and culinary entrepreneurship. When starting or scaling a business, food and beverage based entrepreneurs face significant challenges and risks and require significant investment in space, equipment, and overhead costs....
INNOVATE™ Antwerp Vol.2
SIGI HERMANS
PERSONAL BRANDING PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Ever since I was a young girl, I have loved photography immensely. In the darkroom I felt like a fish in water. Meanwhile, much has changed. Analogue is (almost) gone and of course I switched to digital a long time ago. Digital or analog, photography remains my greatest passion. I...
INNOVATION Quebec
CDCQ
CCTT IN COMPOSITES DEVELOPMENT
Founded in 1989, the Centre de développement des composites du Québec (CDCQ) is an applied research centre affiliated and integrated with the Cégep de Saint-Jérôme—the only college in Quebec offering a technical program in composite materials engineering. The CDCQ’s research facilities are adjacent to the CEGEP. Our mission and visionThrough...
INNOVATE™ Oeiras
CREDIBOM
Working Everyday In The Interest Of Our Customers And Society
As part of the Crédit Agricole Group – one of the largest European banking groups – Credibom is a bank specialized in consumer credit and a leader in Portugal, particularly in automotive financing. Established in 1995, Credibom focus is to adapt its products and services to the needs of its...
INNOVATE® Northern Virginia
MISSIONOVO
PEOPLE FIRST. MISSION ALWAYS.
Introduction In national security, capabilities are proven under pressure; not in theory. Too often, they fail because they were built too far from the mission. Missionovo was founded to close that gap. Three engineers, Grant Kuhnsman, Mike Dobry, and Matt O’Leary, saw the same failures: solutions built without the mission...
INNOVATE® Gaming & Esports
WELCOME TO PHORCE MANAGEMENT GROUP
WHERE WE SHOWCASE THE BEST TALENT AND CONTENT IN GAMING
As a Sport Management professor, I sat and spoke to my students about the various aspects of gaming. Knowing the majority of my classes were filled with gamers, we would have countless discussions about the business and possibilities of esports. From these conversations I saw first hand how limited the...
INNOVATE® Detroit
PURPOSE JOBS
The Startup Storytellers
Everyone has heard about Apple, or Meta, or Uber. But what about StockX, or Autobooks, or KLA? When the economy crashed in 2008, it was standard for Michiganders to graduate from school here and find work in another state. Many flocked to tech jobs on the coasts. But in the...
INNOVATION Quebec
UQAT - NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS
CRÉATION ET NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS
Précurseur dans le domaine de l’enseignement universitaire en jeu vidéo, en création numérique et en création 3D, l’unité d’enseignement et de recherche en création et nouveaux médias de l’UQAT participe au développement des industries numériques et culturelles depuis plus de 20 ans. Répartie entre Montréal et Rouyn-Noranda, l’expertise de l’équipe...
INNOVATE® Maryland
ICaPath
Delivering and tracking immunotherapy with nano level precision
ICaPath is an emerging biotechnology company headquartered at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV) in Baltimore, MD, leveraging this premier academic ecosystem to advance a disruptive nanoparticle-based drug delivery platform. Our core therapeutic asset utilizes biocompatible PLGA nanoparticles to encapsulate highly potent cytokines, small molecules, and genetic constructs. Paired with our...
INNOVATION Quebec
TERRITOIRES INNOVANTS EN ÉCONOMIE SOCIALE ET SOLIDAIRE (TIESS)
CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE SOCIAL INNOVATION AT A TIME!
Propelling Ideas That Have an ImpactTIESS is Quebec’s leading authority on knowledge transfer in the social economy. Its mission? To provide organizations with the tools they need to meet the different challenges facing our society while transforming their practices. Through a continuous process of innovation—whether it be food self-sufficiency, the...
INNOVATION Quebec
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE (RI-MUHC)
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE (RI-MUHC) INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE DU CENTRE UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MCGILL (IR-CUSM) L’IR-CUSM EST UN ÉCOSYSTÈME DE L’INNOVATION UNIQUE, AFFILIÉ À LA FACULTÉ DE MÉDECINE ET DE SCIENCES DE LA SANTÉ DE L’UNIVERSITÉ MCGILL. Chef de file mondial en matière de médecine...
INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation
BESTMOW
FOR 250 YEARS, PHILADELPHIA HAS TRANSFORMED IDEAS INTO INFRASTRUCTURE. BESTMOW CONTINUES THAT TRADITION. THIS TIME, THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS AUTONOMOUS.
Engineering the Autonomous Garden Industrial revolutions rarely announce themselves. They begin quietly – inside laboratories, within algorithms, in the convergence of disciplines that once appeared unrelated. BESTMOW represents such a convergence. What appears, on the surface, to be a robotic lawn mower is in fact a distributed low-speed autonomous driving...
INNOVATE® Nashville
Vanderbilt University
Innovation at Vanderbilt
An R1 research institution, Vanderbilt University is known for pathbreaking research, advancing discoveries and fueling breakthroughs across multiple disciplines. With more than $1 billion in annual research expenditures, Vanderbilt fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration with global impact. But Vanderbilt isn’t just a research university, it’s a powerful economic engine that turns ideas...
INNOVATE® Philadelphia: 250 Years of Innovation
HRP GROUP
REIMAGINING A LEGACY SITE
The Bellwether District and Philadelphia’s New Hub for Innovation On 1,300 acres in South and Southwest Philadelphia, a former oil refinery is being transformed into one of the most ambitious redevelopment projects in the United States, with more than 14 million square feet of innovation and industrial space planned. For...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
CARRICK WEALTH
SOMETIMES, THE MOST INNOVATIVE IDEAS ARE ALREADY CLOSE TO HOME
“Innovation” has become a buzzword in businesses the world over. It evokes images of tech bros playing foosball in the office, of millennials taking team calls through AirPods while on the treadmill, and of AI-enhanced systems that can solve problems better than humans. Certainly, a business keeping up with tech...
INNOVATE™ Flanders
B4PLASTICS
Redesigning tomorrow’s plastics. Today.
B4Plastics is a Belgian Biopolymer Tech Company specialised in: Creating (R&D), Producing (up to kton), Selling and Licensing novel biomaterials, based on a unique range of Bio Based Building Blocks (hence the B4), tailored to an extended variety of applications. This Belgian-based company, located in Limburg, is a pioneer in...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLOW
IS FLIPPING THE PROPERTY INDUSTRY
FLOW IS DEMOCRATISING THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY’S ARCHAIC OPERATING MODEL FOR AGENTS, EMPOWERING THEM IN A DIGITAL WORLD AND GIVING BUYER, SELLER AND AGENT THE BENEFIT OF A BETTER, MORE TRANSPARENT AND COST-EFFECTIVE PROCESS. THE FACE OF TECHNOLOGY CAN STILL BE HUMAN – AND FLOW MAKES SURE THAT ESTATE AGENTS...
INNOVATE™ South Africa
FLUX TRENDS
IS A BOUTIQUE TRENDS CONSULTANCY THAT SPECIALISES IN HELPING COMPANIES TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND WHERE WE ARE HEADED
INNOVATE™ Atlantic Canada
Picketa Systems
REAL-TIME PLANT TISSUE ANALYSIS - MAKE TIMELY INFORMED DECISIONS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR NUTRIENT USE
REAL-TIME PLANT TISSUE ANALYSIS MAKE TIMELY INFORMED DECISIONS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR NUTRIENT USE “Picketa Systems, an agricultural technology company founded in 2020 to unlock agronomic potential, announces its expansion into 13 states across the USA with its groundbreaking LENS system. This innovative real-time crop management technology is poised to transform...
INNOVATION Quebec
SHERBROOKE INNOPOLE
Un organisme SI innovant
Sherbrooke Innopole est l’organisme paramunicipal de développement économique des secteurs industriel et tertiaire-moteur mandaté et financé par la Ville de Sherbrooke. Nous avons pour but de dynamiser l’environnement d’affaires, assurer le rayonnement de Sherbrooke et de ses entreprises sur les scènes locale, nationale et internationale, et de développer les entreprises...
Global Innovation Spotlight
CHAPTER
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex
For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare enrollment remains broken, and the program is near-impossible to navigate. Anyone who has signed up for Medicare or helped a loved one knows this reality firsthand. The problem is so bad that nearly 40% of the...
INNOVATE® Detroit
Bamboo
Building a Statewide Ecosystem
Bamboo began in 2013 out of a community movement. It was the first co-working space in Downtown Detroit. The organization’s model has since evolved to develop and operate hubs that serve as centers for entrepreneurship and creativity. When it started, Bamboo borrowed a $5,000 friends-and-family loan and activated a space...
INNOVATE® Georgia
OGEECHEE TECHNICAL COLLEGE
GREAT THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES
Despite being one of the smallest technical colleges in the state, Ogeechee Technical College (OTC) has carved out a significant niche in the educational landscape of Georgia, standing as a beacon of technical education and workforce development. Under the forward-thinking leadership of Lori Durden, the college’s president since 2016, OTC...
INNOVATE™ Vancouver Vol.2
COHO COLLECTIVE KITCHENS
THE SECRET INGREDIENT FOR FOOD ENTREPRENEURS COHO IS REDEFINING THE SPACE-AS-A-SERVICE INDUSTRY AND THE FUTURE OF CULINARY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The shared kitchen industry, also known as commissaries, is a rapidly growing sector that is changing how people think about food and culinary entrepreneurship. When starting or scaling a business, food and beverage based entrepreneurs face significant challenges and risks and require significant investment in space, equipment, and overhead costs....