Innovation

• [New] Policy should incent technology and innovation to address climate change, and capture the opportunity to export solutions to the world.
• [New] The United States will promote research and innovation in testing, including to help maximize laboratory capacity and reduce time and costs associated with COVID-19 testing.
• [New] The United States will maximize production of different types of testing and create incentives for the private sector to develop, innovate, and expand testing capabilities.
• [New] LGBT entrepreneurs in New York City will now have the opportunity to create jobs and develop innovations that benefit all who live there.
• [New] National ownership of data innovations for SDG monitoring - Data innovation projects to help implement and monitor the 2030 Agenda will not survive very long without country ownership and funding.
• [New] 2021 will be a year of opportunity to innovate and learn how to use data and technology to support efforts to fight financial crime.
• [New] In 2021, driven by the rapidly increasing demand for 5G, country bans on specific equipment vendors will not impact 5G adoption or innovation and instead open up the prospect base for other vendors.
• [New] Two Greater Manchester companies will take part in a groundbreaking Smart City Innovation Testbed launched at Salford's MediaCityUK, to discover and test how cities can use technology to adapt to a post-COVID world.
• [New] In Huawei's automotive digital solution, it plans to base on Information and Communication Technology and to use innovative technologies like 5G, Clouds and big data to help Chinese car companies build better cars.
• [New] Light Science Technologies just secured part of the £90M government investment to support the most innovative technology to boost agricultural productivity and set food production systems towards net zero emissions by 2040.
• [New] Streaming services, 5G connectivity and digital health devices will push consumer tech forward in the year ahead as innovative technologies prove their resilience during challenging times.
• [New] Without significant U.S. investments in federal science and technology programs, China will surpass the U.S. in federal R&D spending in a few years.
• [New] Year of creativity and ecosystem collaboration - As the adoption and application of AI, and specifically cloud-based AI services continues, 2021 will be a year of tremendous creativity and innovation.
• [New] 2021 will see a number of breakthrough events, where innovative food technologies will make real strides towards scaling up solutions to help the world feed itself sustainably.
• [New] 2021 would see the highly anticipated widespread rollout of 5G across the region, which is set to enable lots of innovation in the IoT space.
• The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office will be integral to the federal government's AI efforts for many years to come, serving as a central hub for national AI research and policy for the entire U.S. innovation ecosystem.
• The technology group Wartsila and Grieg Edge, the innovation hub of Norwegian shipping group Grieg Star, are jointly running a project to launch an ammonia-fuelled tanker producing no greenhouse gas emissions by 2024.
• The cell therapy manufacturing industry is expected to experience a great revolution in terms of products launched and customer niches penetrated in the next five years.
• Mobilising some £12 billion of government investment - hoped to spur more than three times as much private sector investment - the key focus was to stop the sale of new ICE vehicles from 2030, some 10 years earlier than the initial deadline.
• Propelled by the disruptions created by the pandemic as well as disruptive digital technologies, the telecom industry is all geared up for innovations and experiments in the year 2021.
• The electric vehicle charging programs announced today will provide economic development opportunities across Massachusetts and support the growth of innovative clean energy jobs.
• Mobile operators are rolling out the Shared Rural Network which will take 4G to 95% of the UK's landmass by 2025, and 5G roll-out will continue in the coming year providing the groundwork for future innovation and an increasingly connected world.

Last updated: 24 January 2021