As countries sought to support decarbonization, energy security, and reliability, they increasingly turned to innovative solutions and small companies to drive the necessary change. Through appropriate stimulation of collaboration and market entry strategies, governments were able to streamline the adoption of these technologies using intermediaries such as Catapults and other organizations. By working to understand needs at a deeper level, genuine change was delivered by leveraging new technologies and small, nimble companies.

This webinar brought together the Energy Systems Catapult from the United Kingdom to discuss its role in accelerating innovation across the energy system and to highlight its flagship programme, Innovating for Transport and Energy Systems, which had recently concluded in India.

Participants also heard from several UK innovators who were developing their international markets with support from the Catapult, and learned how their technologies could benefit ADB developing member countries (DMCs).

Participants gained insights into:

• Successful methodologies for developing solutions using a combination of in-country resources and international collaboration;

• The structure of innovation ecosystems between partner countries, and

• Innovations and how these could be supported to access markets and deliver rapid change.

The knowledge event is the 12th of a series organized by the Emerging Areas Team, Energy Sector Office. The Emerging Areas created under ADB’s New Operating Model aim to operationalize frontier technologies and integrated solutions, foster and drive innovation in policy and operational issues, catalyze thought leadership and future looking bank wide initiatives for future business, collaborate across departments for innovative solutions, identify and develop knowledge and flagship events, and mobilize cofinancing.