Foundation | Core Programs

INNOVATION CENTER

The Innovation Center is designed to grow and strengthen the innovation eco-system by meeting the needs of the key stakeholders - innovators, investors and industry, through its Innovation Hub and Regional User facilities for design, testing, characterization and prototyping.

The Center selects entrepreneurs and innovators with demonstrated commercial potential and helps with a path to commercialization. It provides services to industry seeking innovation and discovery; and to investors interested in opportunities with proven transformative potential.

For more information visit the Innovation Center Site.

ANNUAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE

The Annual Innovation Challenge is a core program raising global innovation and entrepreneurship with focus on high priority innovation areas for the SDGs..

Since 2012, the annual challenge has mobilized the innovator community for a large scale response to plastic pollution with focus on innovation for circular materials, circular packaging and product design and creative communications.

The Ag Innovation Challenge was sponsored by Driscoll to identify innovations reducing the use of field plastics in agriculture.

For more information, visit the Innovation Center page.

CORE PROGRAMS

MESOAMERICAN REEF PROJECT

Plastic pollution presents a growing, significant and urgent threat to the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) fragile marine eco-systems, and to public health.

Traditional approaches that focus on managing waste through recycling and incineration have proven inadequate to the massive challenge of plastic pollution, driven by growth of consumption and tourism. The problem is especially visible in small islands with limited municipal infrastructure and economic resources.

Or multi-year projects on the Bay Islands of Honduras and other areas of the Mesoamerican Reef communities have resulted in measurable reduction of plastic pollution.