As disruptive technologies challenge our existing markets and licensing models, opportunities are created for new, innovative products and solutions to meet the needs of the marketplace and our society. This is happening in nearly every area of technology and around the globe -- and this trend has only accelerated as a result of the recent global pandemic.
“Convergence” represents well the changing (even more global) marketplace, technologies that blur the lines between traditional categories or art groups and the opportunities that are produced when professionals gather around a table to agree to invest in and develop new technologies.
This year we will focus on technologies and industries converging to create new products, new markets and new licensing models: