There are hundreds of thousands of brilliant ideas gathering dust on patent shelves or archived within big corporations. Often, the creators cannot secure early sponsors to build or scale the technology, while corporations lack the capacity to pursue all the stockpiled innovations.

In the pursuit of immediate profit, corporations often dismiss fundamental research, with only 5% of R&D investment directed towards it. However, fundamental research holds the potential to bring radical change, create new economies, and save millions of lives.