Designing for Impact and Returns
As the backbone of the organisation, the world’s biggest design prize, INDEX: Award, is a continuously thriving source of sustainable design. Over the past 10 years, the Award has received over 6,000 nominations from over 100 different countries.
Each biennial award cycle all incoming nominations are boiled down to a pool of finalists by its international jury, and while only five winners are ultimately chosen, the finalist pool still offers some of the best design solutions in the world – demonstrating a growing pipeline of great ideas ripe for investment and impact.
This talk will cover cases in how trends within new technologies can have the potential to solve global challenges. For instance how emerging technologies can enable and address pressing social needs.
These cases offer investment opportunities for governments, investors and stakeholders to take risks in investing into purpose-driven entrepreneurs and companies – making investments into a sustainable future needs risk willingness from all sectors of society – everyone from customers/users through to governments and investors.