Why is Singapore the smartest city in the world?
Singapore’s status as a Smart Nation is internationally recognised. The city-state ranks first in the Global city performance index 2017. Innovfest unbound, the anchor event of Singapore’s Smart Nation Innovations Week, is the perfect opportunity to update ourselves on the projects currently developed by the Smart Nation, in collaboration with universities, startups and the private […]
How to Leverage on the Huge Pool of Software Talents in India?
The software products industry has grown significantly in India over the last decade. This was due to the increase in availability of mobile phones, the ease of adoption of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and the increased collaboration fostered by social media. Still, India has not produced a global tech powerhouse yet. Japan had electronics giant Sony twenty […]
DTAC Accelerate is strengthening the Thai startup ecosystem
Growing startups has grown as a big topic this year in Thailand when the Thai government announced a new US$570 venture fund in April to fund and grow local startups to number 10,000 by 2018. But before these developments, DTAC Accelerate was already on the scene investing and incubating startups. Created in 2013, the program […]
Meet KIC Shanghai, a leading community of startups
In Shanghai, a player of the startup scene not to miss is Knowledge and Innovation Community, as known as KIC.
Citrix Corporate Accelerator: From the closed incubator to the long-term horizon
The Citrix Corporate Accelerator is a good case study of how any innovation structure must learn to adapt to its environment – and from its mistakes as well. In a session based on his own experience as Managing Director of the Citrix Corporate Accelerator, John Mc Intyre shared how he went from a corporate accelerator […]
Nxtp Labs, Latin America's leading private accelerator
“Nxtp Labs shows the strength of the tech ecosystem in Latin America“. It is the busiest private accelerating program in the region, and probably the most prestigious one to be accelerated in. Founded in 2011, it settled first at Buenos Aires. It now has offices in most of Latin America’s tech hubs: Chile, Brazil, Colombia, […]
The emergence of an incubator ecosystem in Uruguay
Is a business incubator the best way to help startups to cope with their day-to-day challenges? To help them grow and become sucess stories that will make other local entrepreneurs dream? This is a recurrent question in Latin America, where almost every single country has realized the need to become a hub for entrepreneurs, if […]
Pakistan startup accelerator Invest2Innovate's founder shares her story
While in Dhaka for their tech event Innovation Xtreme, we’ve met with Kalsoom Lakhani, the founder of Invest2Innovate, a startup accelerator based in Pakistan. You’ve read our opinion on neighboring Bangladesh earlier on: we’re extremely positive about this frontier market which has the energy, the 160m population and the growth to be a very exciting […]
Places of Innovation – How tech giants, hackerspaces and corporates shape new places to foster innovation
The first Coworking Unconference of Asia was the opportunity for us to showcase part of the work we’ve done over the last 18 months around the world. One topic we have been exploring during our trips is the design of what we’ve called “Places of Innovation”. How do corporates create new places where their teams […]
Target Accelerator Program: re-inventing retail in the digital age
Let’s continue to explore corporate innovation, with the Target Accelerator Program case study. We’ve met “both sides of the table” when visiting Bangalore’s top tech conference NASSCOM Product Conclave a few weeks ago, talking both with the teams of Target, and with Kyron, which operates their accelerator. For a quick introduction, Target is an American […]
