In our annual survey of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what were the most important trends in 2017 and sought their insights into the big opportunities of 2018.
By covering all sectors and all regions, the Global Corporate Venturing annual survey of investors is a unique snapshot of the technologies that caught the eye of venturers last year and offer potential for this year.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain shone on many investors’ eyes as the big tech issues of 2018. Looking ahead reveals these developments are still being closely watched, along with interest in wider fields, from fusion power to outer space, implantable therapeutics to disease-modifying drugs.
Ultimately, as Tom Bussey at HSBC said, it is about “moving more towards emerging technologies being used to solve real problems rather than the development of technologies for no considered purpose”. In this, changes in regulation and society as much as new inventions hold the key.
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Nicolas Bailleux, group innovation director at Europcar Mobility Group, said blockchain was his big tech area of interest last year.
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