Deep Tech: Turning Breakthrough Science into Impact
From climate and biotech to AI, quantum and space, deep tech holds the potential to tackle global challenges. Yet turning frontier science into market-ready solutions requires more than technological excellence.
Deep tech rarely fails in the lab. Its greatest challenges emerge on the path to market. Through research, expert insights and entrepreneurial stories, this feature explores the critical role of funding, business expertise, mentorship, industrial infrastructure, partnerships and innovation ecosystems in enabling innovators to become key players in the major transitions.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
What really prevents deep tech breakthroughs from becoming scalable companies?
Turning discovery into a market-ready company is not only a question of science or funding. It takes business knowledge, the right people, and an ecosystem that connects them.
Sustainability & Society
A Roadmap for Clean Tech to Drive Europe’s Net-Zero Strategy
Europe has world-class clean-tech assets, but a new research suggests their impact on the climate transition depends on connecting them through stronger innovation ecosystems.
Entrepreneurial Mentorship Is a Process of Updating Judgments
Using AI to analyze mentoring sessions, research from HEC Paris’ ION Management Science Lab reveals how mentors reassess startup ventures as new information and perspectives emerge.
Tech & AI
When AI Moves From Software Into the Physical World
Physical AI is moving intelligence into machines, factories and medical devices, raising new challenges for computing infrastructure, regulation and industrial sovereignty.
The Planetary Challenge Is Now Industrial
Climate technologies, biotech and space provide answers to environmental crises, but they need to move from scientific discovery to industrial deployment that markets and institutions can trust.
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