This document summarizes innovative companies and projects from around the world. It describes Planet Innovation in Australia, which develops products with positive social impacts, including an affordable hearing aid system called Incus. In China, Baidu offers search and local information services and launched a recycling app. An Egyptian startup called Mubser created a navigational device for visually impaired users. Other innovations highlighted include a water purification device from Sweden, affordable food vending machines in Chile, and a direct air capture project for carbon removal in Canada.

1. La innovación del mundo
Thakur Institute of Management Studies and Research
(Friday , 26 August, 2016)
Presented by Mr. Manish Tripathi ( I – 15-18-19)

2. Oceania

3. Planet Innovation Pty Ltd, Australia
• Planet Innovation exists to develop and commercialize
products that have a positive impact on the world
• Provides technology innovation, product development
and commercialization expertise to companies around
the world
• Focuses on the biomedical, clean-tech and hi-tech
industries
• Employees: 90
• Adjusted #1 in Australia’s most innovative company in
2015 by Fairfax's BRW, Australia's premier business
publisher

4. Incus Hearing Aid
• More than four million people have hearing loss
• Blamey Saunders partnered with Planet Innovation to
develop a new hearing aid system that incorporates a
smartphone app and a Bluetooth-enabled
programmer, called Incus
• Incus is a small programmer that sits between the
hearing aid and smartphone
• The user simply and discretely adjusts their hearing aid
to suit noise level for whichever environment they’re
in, and save the settings
• The system has reduced the price of a quality hearing
aid from $10,000 to around $3,000

5. Asia

6. Baidu Inc. , China
• A Chinese web services company
• Baidu offers several services to locate information,
products and services using Chinese-language
search terms, such as, search by Chinese
phonetics, advanced search, snapshots, spell
checker, stock quotes, news, images, video, and
weather, train and flight schedules and other local
information
• As per Forbes 2015, second most innovative
company in Asia after Unilever Indonesia

7. Baidu Recycle App
• China is one of the largest producers and
recipients of e-waste in the world
• Uses an innovative model of connecting
consumers, dismantlers and manufactures
together using an efficient and user friendly
smartphone app
• Launched by UNDP China and Baidu, supported by
FECO and the Global Environmental Facility
• The user can find out a price and recycle their
electronic products using a nearby legitimate e-
waste pick-up services

8. Africa

9. Mubser, Egypt
• Breakthrough navigational aid tool designed for
visually-impaired people
• A wearable belt with a Bluetooth-connected headset
that guides blind people to move and navigate around
common obstacles such as walls, chairs and staircases
in a safe and easy way
• Mubser recognizes these obstacles by leveraging on
RGB imaging and infrared depth data captured by a 3D
depth camera and quickly notifies the user through an
inbuilt audio device and vibration motor
• Developed by Khaled Shady, a 22 year-old Egyptian
student and a group of computer engineering students
at Menoufia University, Egypt

10. Europe

11. Solvatten, Sweden
• A child dies every 15 seconds as a result of
contaminated water
• A household water-treatment unit that cleans
organically contaminated water with the help of
the sun
• The device uses natural UV radiation to treat water
• In 2-6 hours the water will be drinkable
• An indicator shows when it is safe to drink the
water
• Can also be used as a solar water heater, providing
hot water for cooking and hygiene

13. South America

14. ALGRAMO, Santiago, Chile
• In poor outskirts, staple food come in small quantities
• Affordable on a daily basis but works out to cost more
than larger sizes in the long run, 40% more expensive
• Algramo, a vending machine that dispenses bulk
staples including detergents, rice, beans, and lentils
• Company fills vending machines, installs them for free
in small neighbourhood stores, splitting profit 50-50
• The shorter supply chain cuts out the excess
packaging, labelling, and middleman, and products
• Installed 125 vending machines in Santiago in six
months, reaching an estimated 15,000 people
• Will soon expand to all of Latin America within a
decade

16. North America

17. Carbon engineering, Canada
• Incorporated in 2009 and privately owned, CE is
funded by private investors including Bill Gates
• The G7 industrialized nations’ declaration June
2015, echoed in the Paris Agreement negotiated
by 196 participating countries in December, set a
deadline to get mankind’s net carbon dioxide
emissions to zero by 2100
• Pioneering a massively ambitious plan to filter
greenhouse gases directly out of the air at
industrial scale