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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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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.

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  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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Egypt | Packaging | Sustainability
LOT
18

Innovative and sustainable packaging for food processing industries in Egypt

This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business

How can we reduce the negative environmental impact of the food packaging industry by fostering alternative solutions that are more sustainable and thereby provide Egyptian companies with increased opportunities for export to the European market? 

Egypt is the largest consumer of plastic in Africa and produces 5.4 million tons of plastic waste due to its large population. Despite the different efforts, the high consumption combined with the low consumer awareness lead to challenges to manage this waste. The high cost of sustainable packaging is also hindering both local consumption and compliance with regulations of international markets. The lab of tomorrow 18 seeks to address these challenges and find low-threshold and scalable solutions to produce sustainable packaging at low cost and make it available on the market.

 


 

Partners

01

Understand

In Egypt, the packaging sector mainly relies on plastic and chemical textile fabrics to meet the required packaging production. This is compounded because of the extensive cost of cardboard/paper and wooden boxes. As a result, few large companies are financially able to comply with the EU regulation on sustainable packaging. In addition, awareness of sustainability is limited in many sections of the population, which means that customer demand for sustainable materials is low. It is correspondingly more difficult to pass on the higher costs for sustainable materials to the consumer.

This underscores why Egypt is currently working on a strategy to reduce single-use plastics. The government's 2030 strategy is aimed at developing the industrial ecosystem into a greener and more sustainable system. While consumer awareness is growing, increasing regulations make it easier for new sustainable products to enter the market. These circumstances outline the need for the lab of tomorrow 18 that aims to address the challenge of sustainable food packaging by bringing together companies from the EU and Egypt to jointly develop business solutions.

Business Opportunities

02

Ideate Solutions

During the ideation sprint in El Gouna, the teams developed 4 innovative business ideas.
19
Participants
15
Companies
4
Ideas developed
3
Proven Business Models

03

Incubate business

3 ventures successfully entered the Incubation Phase.

04

Sustainable Business

Labpak

Labpak is s a biowaste centered material innovation facility to produce biobase reinforced biodegradable plastic materials and products serving the local and EU markets. 

The Bulk Store

The Bulk Store is selling branded products in bulk with zero waste​, starting with detergents. Consumers can have their detergent delivered to their homes in bulk or refill it directly at the hypermarket by bringing their own containers or buying a reusable container on site.

Plastica Co.

Plastica Co. offers a platform connecting recycling stakeholders with plastic manufacturers, as well operating a sorting/processing facility that can meet the plastic manufacturers’ market needs.

More information

Egypt | Packaging | Sustainability
LOT
18

Innovative and sustainable packaging for food processing industries in Egypt

This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business

How can we reduce the negative environmental impact of the food packaging industry by fostering alternative solutions that are more sustainable and thereby provide Egyptian companies with increased opportunities for export to the European market? 

Egypt is the largest consumer of plastic in Africa and produces 5.4 million tons of plastic waste due to its large population. Despite the different efforts, the high consumption combined with the low consumer awareness lead to challenges to manage this waste. The high cost of sustainable packaging is also hindering both local consumption and compliance with regulations of international markets. The lab of tomorrow 18 seeks to address these challenges and find low-threshold and scalable solutions to produce sustainable packaging at low cost and make it available on the market.

 


 

Partners

01

Understand

In Egypt, the packaging sector mainly relies on plastic and chemical textile fabrics to meet the required packaging production. This is compounded because of the extensive cost of cardboard/paper and wooden boxes. As a result, few large companies are financially able to comply with the EU regulation on sustainable packaging. In addition, awareness of sustainability is limited in many sections of the population, which means that customer demand for sustainable materials is low. It is correspondingly more difficult to pass on the higher costs for sustainable materials to the consumer.

This underscores why Egypt is currently working on a strategy to reduce single-use plastics. The government's 2030 strategy is aimed at developing the industrial ecosystem into a greener and more sustainable system. While consumer awareness is growing, increasing regulations make it easier for new sustainable products to enter the market. These circumstances outline the need for the lab of tomorrow 18 that aims to address the challenge of sustainable food packaging by bringing together companies from the EU and Egypt to jointly develop business solutions.

Business Opportunities

02

Ideate Solutions

During the ideation sprint in El Gouna, the teams developed 4 innovative business ideas.
19
Participants
15
Companies
4
Ideas developed
3
Proven Business Models

03

Incubate business

3 ventures successfully entered the Incubation Phase.

04

Sustainable Business

Labpak

Labpak is s a biowaste centered material innovation facility to produce biobase reinforced biodegradable plastic materials and products serving the local and EU markets. 

The Bulk Store

The Bulk Store is selling branded products in bulk with zero waste​, starting with detergents. Consumers can have their detergent delivered to their homes in bulk or refill it directly at the hypermarket by bringing their own containers or buying a reusable container on site.

Plastica Co.

Plastica Co. offers a platform connecting recycling stakeholders with plastic manufacturers, as well operating a sorting/processing facility that can meet the plastic manufacturers’ market needs.

More information

Egypt | Packaging | Sustainability
LOT
18

Innovative and sustainable packaging for food processing industries in Egypt

This challenge is in phase: Sustainable Business

How can we reduce the negative environmental impact of the food packaging industry by fostering alternative solutions that are more sustainable and thereby provide Egyptian companies with increased opportunities for export to the European market? 

Egypt is the largest consumer of plastic in Africa and produces 5.4 million tons of plastic waste due to its large population. Despite the different efforts, the high consumption combined with the low consumer awareness lead to challenges to manage this waste. The high cost of sustainable packaging is also hindering both local consumption and compliance with regulations of international markets. The lab of tomorrow 18 seeks to address these challenges and find low-threshold and scalable solutions to produce sustainable packaging at low cost and make it available on the market.

 


 

Partners

01

Understand

In Egypt, the packaging sector mainly relies on plastic and chemical textile fabrics to meet the required packaging production. This is compounded because of the extensive cost of cardboard/paper and wooden boxes. As a result, few large companies are financially able to comply with the EU regulation on sustainable packaging. In addition, awareness of sustainability is limited in many sections of the population, which means that customer demand for sustainable materials is low. It is correspondingly more difficult to pass on the higher costs for sustainable materials to the consumer.

This underscores why Egypt is currently working on a strategy to reduce single-use plastics. The government's 2030 strategy is aimed at developing the industrial ecosystem into a greener and more sustainable system. While consumer awareness is growing, increasing regulations make it easier for new sustainable products to enter the market. These circumstances outline the need for the lab of tomorrow 18 that aims to address the challenge of sustainable food packaging by bringing together companies from the EU and Egypt to jointly develop business solutions.

Business Opportunities

02

Ideate Solutions

During the ideation sprint in El Gouna, the teams developed 4 innovative business ideas.
19
Participants
15
Companies
4
Ideas developed
3
Proven Business Models

03

Incubate business

3 ventures successfully entered the Incubation Phase.

04

Sustainable Business

Labpak

Labpak is s a biowaste centered material innovation facility to produce biobase reinforced biodegradable plastic materials and products serving the local and EU markets. 

The Bulk Store

The Bulk Store is selling branded products in bulk with zero waste​, starting with detergents. Consumers can have their detergent delivered to their homes in bulk or refill it directly at the hypermarket by bringing their own containers or buying a reusable container on site.

Plastica Co.

Plastica Co. offers a platform connecting recycling stakeholders with plastic manufacturers, as well operating a sorting/processing facility that can meet the plastic manufacturers’ market needs.

More information

Challenge in spotlight

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LOT
18
egypt | packaging | sustainability

Innovative and sustainable packaging for food processing industries in Egypt

How can we reduce the negative environmental impact of the food packaging industry by fostering alternative solutions?