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Kickstarting businesses and development in !!!emerging!!! markets

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The lot programme

Find out how sustainable and profitable business models are created in lab of tomorrow programme and where you can get involved.

Development challenge
A local development challenge with business potential is the starting point of any lab of tomorrow programme.
Understand local needs
Unmet needs of the local population and business opportunities are discovered.
Ideate solutions
Products and services that tackle unmet needs are co-created by interdisciplinary teams.
Incubate business
Market-ready products and services are developed through the newly established joint ventures.
Sustainable business
Impact-driven ventures owned and driven by the private sector.

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Join a process

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How it works

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How it works

Ventures

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The lab of tomorrow

An unique tool for customized business solutions.

The mission of the lab of tomorrow (lot) process is to turn business opportunities in developing countries into profitable businesses. We are convinced that only viable businesses will have a long-term impact on sustainable development.

More Info

  1. The lot drives business
    We bring access to new markets, local expertise and business opportunities in developing countries
  2. The lot builds relevant networks
    We match businesses, non-profits and political decision makers from the EU and developing countries to co-create and co-own products
  3. The lot creates social impact
    The new products and services contribute to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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.

22
Running & completed programmes
438
Companies participated
52
Promising Concepts
24
Ventures preparing market entry
15
Businesses active in the market
Siemens
Fopo–Bayer
TÜV Rheinland
Tui
Merck
Boehringer Ingelheim
Bayer
SAP
Roche
Africa Works
DHL
ibes

Your opportunities

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Develop 
your business 
in emerging markets

Solve your development
challenge


Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:

  • Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.
  • Join forces with actors from the EU and local emerging markets, from the private sector but also politics and science.
  • Profit from their expertise, access to markets & technologies as well as available resources.

Develop 
your business 
in emerging markets

Solve your development
challenge


Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:

  • Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.
  • Join forces with actors from the EU and local emerging markets, from the private sector but also politics and science.

Invest in solutions and support innovations

Solve your development
challenge


Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:

  • Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.

How it works

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How it works

Any questions?

Become a partner or mentor

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Ready to create impact?

Toolkit

Conducting your own lab of tomorrow process and needing the right tools?

The toolkit supports you in conducting your own lab of tomorrow process by giving you all the materials you need.

Currently running challenges

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Food-loss-reduction | Western-kenya
LOT
13

Cooled transport to reduce food losses in Kenya

This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business

How might we enable cooled transport in Western Kenya to reduce food losses?

In many regions in Kenya there is a lack of transport options for farmers' harvest to the markets in the country's urban centres. With the few transportation means that exist and missing cooling options, a large part of the goods is lost, spoiled or damaged. A lot of the farmers' output is therefore never sold or used. Therefore, while food is becoming scarce in the cities, the farmers in rural areas struggle to transport and sell their harvest. With the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to counteract its spread, supply constraints have even been exacerbated. 

01

Understand

Since fish is extremely delicate and spoils fast, a continuous cold-chain during transport and storage has to be ensured. This is difficult for farmers and vendors to achieve when selling fish from lake Victoria to the distant urban centres of Kisumu and Nairobi. However, this is where most individual and commercial customers like hotels and restaurants are.

Only few fish farmers can invest in an ice machine to be able to cool their fish with ice cubes. Therefore, for most fishermen to be able to sell their produce without a loss in quality and quantity, they need access to cold storage facilities, cooled transport and direct contact to the customers.

Business Opportunities

02

Ideate Solutions

The innovation sprint was conducted fully virtually and was divided into two days of ideation sprints and one day of business design workshop.
11
Participants
9
Companies
2
Ideas developed
2
Proven Business Models

03

Incubate business

2 ventures are currently in this phase.

04

Sustainable Business

GoodFish: Fresh fish through continuous cooling

GoodFish is an online marketplace where fish farmers are connected with restaurants and hotels. The businesses can place orders directly on the web application and get the exact amount and quality from the farmers that they trust.

The Cold Hub

The Cold Hub is an off-grid cold storage facility at the lakeside. It allows fishing communities to weigh, cut and store their fresh fish to preserve its quality until it can be sold.

Food-loss-reduction | Western-kenya
LOT
13

Cooled transport to reduce food losses in Kenya

This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business

How might we enable cooled transport in Western Kenya to reduce food losses?

In many regions in Kenya there is a lack of transport options for farmers' harvest to the markets in the country's urban centres. With the few transportation means that exist and missing cooling options, a large part of the goods is lost, spoiled or damaged. A lot of the farmers' output is therefore never sold or used. Therefore, while food is becoming scarce in the cities, the farmers in rural areas struggle to transport and sell their harvest. With the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to counteract its spread, supply constraints have even been exacerbated. 

01

Understand

Since fish is extremely delicate and spoils fast, a continuous cold-chain during transport and storage has to be ensured. This is difficult for farmers and vendors to achieve when selling fish from lake Victoria to the distant urban centres of Kisumu and Nairobi. However, this is where most individual and commercial customers like hotels and restaurants are.

Only few fish farmers can invest in an ice machine to be able to cool their fish with ice cubes. Therefore, for most fishermen to be able to sell their produce without a loss in quality and quantity, they need access to cold storage facilities, cooled transport and direct contact to the customers.

Business Opportunities

02

Ideate Solutions

The innovation sprint was conducted fully virtually and was divided into two days of ideation sprints and one day of business design workshop.
11
Participants
9
Companies
2
Ideas developed
2
Proven Business Models

03

Incubate business

2 ventures are currently in this phase.

04

Sustainable Business

GoodFish: Fresh fish through continuous cooling

GoodFish is an online marketplace where fish farmers are connected with restaurants and hotels. The businesses can place orders directly on the web application and get the exact amount and quality from the farmers that they trust.

The Cold Hub

The Cold Hub is an off-grid cold storage facility at the lakeside. It allows fishing communities to weigh, cut and store their fresh fish to preserve its quality until it can be sold.

Food-loss-reduction | Western-kenya
LOT
13

Cooled transport to reduce food losses in Kenya

This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business

How might we enable cooled transport in Western Kenya to reduce food losses?

In many regions in Kenya there is a lack of transport options for farmers' harvest to the markets in the country's urban centres. With the few transportation means that exist and missing cooling options, a large part of the goods is lost, spoiled or damaged. A lot of the farmers' output is therefore never sold or used. Therefore, while food is becoming scarce in the cities, the farmers in rural areas struggle to transport and sell their harvest. With the COVID-19 pandemic and measures to counteract its spread, supply constraints have even been exacerbated. 

01

Understand

Since fish is extremely delicate and spoils fast, a continuous cold-chain during transport and storage has to be ensured. This is difficult for farmers and vendors to achieve when selling fish from lake Victoria to the distant urban centres of Kisumu and Nairobi. However, this is where most individual and commercial customers like hotels and restaurants are.

Only few fish farmers can invest in an ice machine to be able to cool their fish with ice cubes. Therefore, for most fishermen to be able to sell their produce without a loss in quality and quantity, they need access to cold storage facilities, cooled transport and direct contact to the customers.

Business Opportunities

02

Ideate Solutions

The innovation sprint was conducted fully virtually and was divided into two days of ideation sprints and one day of business design workshop.
11
Participants
9
Companies
2
Ideas developed
2
Proven Business Models

03

Incubate business

2 ventures are currently in this phase.

04

Sustainable Business

GoodFish: Fresh fish through continuous cooling

GoodFish is an online marketplace where fish farmers are connected with restaurants and hotels. The businesses can place orders directly on the web application and get the exact amount and quality from the farmers that they trust.

The Cold Hub

The Cold Hub is an off-grid cold storage facility at the lakeside. It allows fishing communities to weigh, cut and store their fresh fish to preserve its quality until it can be sold.

Challenge in spotlight

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LOT
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food-loss-reduction | western-kenya

Cooled transport to reduce food losses in Kenya