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Opportunities for Purpose Driven Innovation for the SDGs

Presentation & workshop on how tech and digital social innovation ecosystems in Israel, France, Italy, and Portugal are accelerating progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

14th February 2024

14:00 GMT

Webinar

The workshop is a follow-up to the recent SDG-Driven Tech Innovation Ecosystems research report, providing a deep-dive into:

  • How industry can harness tech and innovation to meet the SDGs
  • SDG opportunities for start-ups, scale-ups and venture capital investors in emerging markets
  • How digital social innovation can be scaled domestically to meet the SDGs

 

The webinar was led by the SDG-Driven Tech Innovation Ecosystems consortium. A regional collaboration led by GSG Impact and GSG National Partners: IFIE (Israel), FAIR (France), SIA (Italy), and MAZE (Portugal).

Speakers include

 

  • Jonathan Menuhin, CEO of Israel Innovation Institute
  • Hoi Ying So, Co-Head and Global Portfolio Manager, Disruptive Technologies and Venture Capital at International Finance Corporation (IFC)
  • Laura Orestano, CEO of SocialFare

 

Participants will be able to share ideas on what more can be done to improve coordination and action among business, startups, accelerators, investors, charitable foundations, universities, and policymakers.

Background and Key Findings

In 2023 consortium partners mapped their own SDG-driven ecosystems, looking at the public, private, and philanthropic actors, resources, and networks that are working to advance SDG-aligned technology.

Mapping was also undertaken in three CEE countries. The aim was to identify best practices and common barriers, for scaling technology for the SDGs domestically and internationally. Findings were published in October of this year, including a set of recommendations and a mapping methodology for others wishing to undertake the same exercise in their country. 

The consortium found that some countries benefit from strong nationally-sponsored funding and research commercialisation platforms (Israel, France, Estonia, Poland, Italy), while others lead the way on more bottom-up social innovation platforms (Italy, Portugal, France).

It also found that across Europe, as many as 19,000 start-ups may be providing solutions to the SDGs, but because of a lack of investment and business development support, a lack of awareness of the SDGs, and ambiguity over impact measurement and management standards most solutions are not explicitly being put to work to address the SDGs. 

By building and engaging networks and pathways for collaboration between countries we can enhance the potential for technology and innovation to be applied, at scale, to help meet the SDGs.

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