Kickstarting businesses and development in emerging markets
The lab of tomorrow is one of the services for private sector cooperation of the Agency for Business & Economic Development (AWE). AWE operates as part of the business and development network Partners in Transformation.
Partners in Transformation is supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to actively promote and strengthen cooperation with actors in the private sector: companies, trade unions, chambers of commerce, associations
and other interest groups. Partners in Transformation emphasizes the partnership between the private sector and development cooperation, with the shared goal of achieving a social and environmental transformation in BMZ’s partner countries.
The programmes work with companies, trade unions, chambers of commerce, associations and other interest groups.
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Our track record
The lab of tomorrow has been the programme of choice by GIZ projects, the Austrian and the Swiss Development Agencies as well as companies to solve specific development challenges all over the world.
Your opportunities
Learn how you can benefit from the lab of tomorrow programme.
Solve your development challenge
The lab of tomorrow programme activates the private sector to achieve SDG impact. Your advantages of initiating a programme include:
- Let the private sector solve your development challenge – we help you identify unmet needs with business potential.
- As an initiator, you steer the programme and bring in all the people necessary for success.
- Benefit from our network and gain access to business partners, development agencies, investors, mentors and policy makers.
- The impact created by the lab of tomorrow programme goes beyond development cooperation project lifespans.
Develop your business in emerging markets
Expand into emerging markets together with new business partners! Your benefits of participating in the programme include:
- Business case sourcing: We identify business opportunities in emerging markets for you to choose from.
- Participant sourcing & matching: We match you with relevant local and international companies in interdisciplinary teams.
- As a team, you co-create a new product or service and benefit from business development coaching.
- Partner network access: you gain access to business partners, investors, mentors and policy makers.
Invest in solutions and support innovations
Gain access to impact investment opportunities in various markets and sectors! Your benefits in supporting our ventures include:
- Be the first to know about investment opportunities in untapped markets.
- You become part of our strong network of innovators and entrepreneurs.
- Receive access to invest in our ventures at different stages. We invite you to pitch sessions, demo days and share our dealbook.
- Bring in companies from your portfolio and offer them interesting business development opportunities.
How it works
Find out how sustainable and profitable business models are created in a lab of tomorrow programme and what’s in it for you.
Challenge in spotlight
Take a glance at our most recent lab of tomorrow business opportunities.
Industry 4.0 solutions in Tunisian agri-food industries
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Currently running challenges
Take a look at our currently running challenges and the potential business opportunities they present for you.
Industry 4.0 solutions in Tunisian agri-food industries
This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business
How might we use Industry 4.0 solutions to monitor and control waste and water use in Tunisian agri-food industries?
Tunisian agri-food industries suffer from high quantities of water use and liquid waste resulting in negative impacts on the environment and business performance. This is caused by a lack of technical and/or human capacities for monitoring water use and liquid waste.
Partners
01
Understand
Agri-food production is the fastest growing industry sector in Tunisia with an annual growth rate of 10.7% in 2020. But it is also the most polluting and water consuming sector, contributing to up to 65% of the country's total amount of waste. Within the agri-food industry, olive oil and cheese production do produce the largest amounts of waste, namely margine and cheese whey.
Find out how olive oil is produced in a video here.
Watch the cheese production process in a video here.
Business Opportunities
02
Ideate Solutions
03
Incubate business
Three ventures are currently in this phase.04
Sustainable Business
Another Whey
This digital whey management solution enables an optimization of the cheese whey process, a reduction if the environmental impact and a lowering of taxes and water treatment costs. How does it work? The innovative solution connects the sensors measuring temperature, flow and other parameters to an AI algorithm that also considers external data like the weather and location and presents the data to users on a web page and a mobile app. This tailor-made solution combines useful features like decision suggestions, trends history and forecasting, as well as tax cost estimations and much more. Another Whey generates revenue from consultancy, the installation of the solution and assistance and maintenance.
OlyBoost
OlyBoost aims to control the water consumption for efficient olive oil extraction and thereby reduce water consumption within the industry. Through the analysis of the data collected from different sensors and the actuator inefficiencies in the water consumption can be detected and reduced. Revenue will be generated with this innovative solution through the sale of hardware and platform subscriptions.
The Right Whey
This agile whey management solution provides a unified process management tool for monitoring and actuation. It does this by acquiring and analysing data, automated decision-based actuation, and optimization through a reduction in human dependency and the exploitation of reusage. The product consists of sensor modules and actuator modules that can be retrofitted, a process user interface an independent sensing and real-time actuation option. The Right Whey generates one-time revenue through the sale of its service, as well as recurring revenue through subscription maintenance.
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Industry 4.0 solutions in Tunisian agri-food industries
This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business
How might we use Industry 4.0 solutions to monitor and control waste and water use in Tunisian agri-food industries?
Tunisian agri-food industries suffer from high quantities of water use and liquid waste resulting in negative impacts on the environment and business performance. This is caused by a lack of technical and/or human capacities for monitoring water use and liquid waste.
Partners
01
Understand
Agri-food production is the fastest growing industry sector in Tunisia with an annual growth rate of 10.7% in 2020. But it is also the most polluting and water consuming sector, contributing to up to 65% of the country's total amount of waste. Within the agri-food industry, olive oil and cheese production do produce the largest amounts of waste, namely margine and cheese whey.
Find out how olive oil is produced in a video here.
Watch the cheese production process in a video here.
Business Opportunities
02
Ideate Solutions
03
Incubate business
Three ventures are currently in this phase.04
Sustainable Business
Another Whey
This digital whey management solution enables an optimization of the cheese whey process, a reduction if the environmental impact and a lowering of taxes and water treatment costs. How does it work? The innovative solution connects the sensors measuring temperature, flow and other parameters to an AI algorithm that also considers external data like the weather and location and presents the data to users on a web page and a mobile app. This tailor-made solution combines useful features like decision suggestions, trends history and forecasting, as well as tax cost estimations and much more. Another Whey generates revenue from consultancy, the installation of the solution and assistance and maintenance.
OlyBoost
OlyBoost aims to control the water consumption for efficient olive oil extraction and thereby reduce water consumption within the industry. Through the analysis of the data collected from different sensors and the actuator inefficiencies in the water consumption can be detected and reduced. Revenue will be generated with this innovative solution through the sale of hardware and platform subscriptions.
The Right Whey
This agile whey management solution provides a unified process management tool for monitoring and actuation. It does this by acquiring and analysing data, automated decision-based actuation, and optimization through a reduction in human dependency and the exploitation of reusage. The product consists of sensor modules and actuator modules that can be retrofitted, a process user interface an independent sensing and real-time actuation option. The Right Whey generates one-time revenue through the sale of its service, as well as recurring revenue through subscription maintenance.
More information
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