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.

PHASE 0

Development challenge

A local development challenge with business potential is the starting point of any lab of tomorrow programme.

PHASE 1

Understand local needs

Unmet needs of the local population and business opportunities are discovered.

PHASE 2

Ideate solutions

Products and services that tackle unmet needs are co-created by interdisciplinary teams.

PHASE 3

Incubate business

Market-ready products and services are developed through the newly established joint ventures.

PHASE 4

Sustainable business

Impact-driven ventures owned and driven by the private sector.

Where it all begins

PHASE 0

Development challenge

A general development challenge with business potential is defined to be addressed within the lab of tomorrow programme. The roles and responsibilities of the programme partners are clearly defined.

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The basis of our programme

PHASE 1

Understand local needs

Unmet needs of the local population and potential business opportunities are discovered. These insights form the basis for defining sustainable business opportunities and attracting suitable companies for the lab of tomorrow programme.

Team work makes a dream work

PHASE 2

Ideate solutions

The participating companies – often supported by actors from local public sector, civil society and academia – ideate business solutions in small, interdisciplinary groups. This happens in an ‘Ideation Sprint’ – an intense 4-day workshop supported by professional facilitators that concludes with the outline of a business model.

Finetuning business models

PHASE 3

Incubate business

The participating teams enter the incubation phase to refine, test and ultimately pilot their business model in the target market. Typically, the incubation phase takes about 3-4 months and encompasses coaching for the teams by Business Design experts and might also include additional in-kind support. The incubation phase closes with a pitch in front of investors.

Impact-driven ventures

PHASE 4

Sustainable business

The results of the lab of tomorrow programme are viable ventures owned and driven by the private sector that make a strong, scaling contribution to reaching the SDGs and are independent from development corporation funding.

Ventures that are operating the market

next phase: understand target group need

next phase: ideate solutions

next phase: incubate business

next phase: sustainable business

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How it works

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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The lot drives business
We bring access to new markets, local expertise and business opportunities in developing countries
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
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.

Running & completed programmes

461

Companies participated

Promising Concepts

Ventures preparing market entry

Businesses active in the market

Siemens

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Fopo–Bayer

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TÜV Rheinland

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Tui

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Merck

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Boehringer Ingelheim

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Bayer

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SAP

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Roche

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Africa Works

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DHL

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ibes

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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.

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Develop  your business  in emerging markets

Start process

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.

Start process

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Start process

Solve your development
challenge

Initiate a lab of
tomorrow process to:

Generate innovative and viable business solutions addressing a challenge.

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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.

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Agri-food-industry | Industry-4-0 | Tunisia

LOT

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

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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

Cheese industry: monitor whey parameters

Olive oil mills: monitor water consumption & waste

02

Ideate Solutions

Participants

Companies

Ideas developed

Proven Business Models

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.