Sectors - Disruptive Innovations

ennovent supports visionary entrepreneurs who have found profitable ways to market disruptive innovations. These disruptive innovations deliver relatively simple, convenient, low-cost products or services that are of high value to the base of the economic pyramid.

Innovations that introduce new products, processes, services and business models are needed to meet social, environmental and economic challenges in developing countries. The innovations can be completely new inventions or creative adaptations of existing ones; and they can either create new markets or reshape existing markets.

ennovent is focusing on disruptive innovations valuable to the BoP in India in the following sectors:


Energy
Energy generation, energy efficiency, or storage technologies to mitigate climate change and reduce the dependence on non-renewable energy sources.


Food
The full range of activities involved in the agricultural value chain from moving organic and healthy agricultural products from the farmer’s field to the consumer’s table.


Water
Systems and technologies for water supply and treatment that ensure clean drinking and irrigation water and that reduce the impact of waste water on the environment and society.


Education
Formal and informal education including vocational training, distant education, test preparation and online learning at pre-school, elementary, primary and higher education levels.


Health
The treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, clinical laboratory sciences, nursing, and allied health professions.

We support innovations and enterprises that have the following focus:

  • Disruptive Innovations: The solution to a challenge of sustainability is innovative and transforms traditional practices in the geographic region or even globally.

  • Sector Focus: The innovation addresses key challenges to sustainability and is within the sector focus of ennovent.

  • Exclusion Criteria: The innovation as well as the activities of the enterprise do not fall within the general exclusion criteria of ennovent.

  • Scalability and Replication: The innovation has the potential to reach scale by using the profits the enterprise generates and can be adapted successfully to other local or international settings.

  • Implementation Effectiveness: The implementation of the innovation to date and the future plans fulfil the standard criteria for effective and efficient business management.