Let’s build a better
world together
By Iain Robertson
This century is crying out for a world that can find solutions to
the challenges that threaten its very existence.
he rather long to do list currently
facing humanity is getting a little
longer every day, as the negative
impact of climate change, confict,
dwindling resources and rising populations
present difcult questions on how best to
move forward.
Finding the answers will require everyone
to contribute: individuals, businesses,
governments and academic institutions – and
in a collaborative way. Thankfully we have
the tools to accelerate the desired impact:
innovation and communication. Throw in a
handy international blueprint to guide our
actions: the 17 UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) – and we have the means and
direction to build a better world.
Impact Innovators is here to harness
the power of communication to help
fast-track the journey towards that better
world. A new European-based platform,
it has been borne out of an ongoing
collaboration between Innovators Magazine
and Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) - an
organisation which promotes a culture of
innovation across the European Union.
The progress and impact of the European
Innovation Summit (EIS) and EU Top 50
Startup competition (EU50), two K4I-led
initiatives, will be communicated through
the platform.
“Communication is a key element
in accelerating the creation and adoption
of innovations that can overcome
society’s biggest challenges – and
deliver a sustainable future for all. The
European Innovation Summit and EU
Top50 competition are vehicles for
advancing and facilitating change driven
by science, new technologies, research
and innovation. And this new multi-
media quarterly platform complements
them with actionable messages,
discussions and debates that are
designed to mainstream transformative
ideas and opportunities,” said Dr
Roland Strauss, Managing Director
of Knowledge4Innovation.
Walking the talk
Impact Innovators will also showcase the
pioneering companies, programmes and
accelerators - like the EU Top50 - from
Europe and beyond, that are developing
and advancing the solutions and ideas
which will take us closer to realising the fair
and sustainable world we all want.
We’re going to go further than that
though, by taking storytelling full circle.
While examples of great breakthroughs can
undoubtedly provide inspiration; Impact
Innovators must sit at the nexus of innovation
and communication to function as one big
call to action – targeted at all groups.
This means that as well as having
articles on the innovators and innovations
positively transforming our world, the
quarterly magazine element – which
will include a fagship annual edition
distributed at the European Parliament
during EIS – will also link them to the SDGs
they are tackling, and most importantly,
highlight the corresponding programmes