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World-Transforming Technologies (WTT) is a non-profit organization created in 2012, it was consolidated in 2015, within the Avina Foundation ecosystem to initially work with innovative individuals whose scientific and technological projects had high potential for large-scale impact. In the early years, WTT was supported by organizations such as the Good Energies Foundation and Instituto Arapyaú, which joined Avina to strengthen the initiative. Disruptive technologies were the focus of WTT, helping scientists overcome the “valley of death” of innovation. From this time, the link with PERA Complexity, an initiative dedicated to the development of energy, desalination, and encryption technologies, remains to this day.
In a second phase, WTT began adopting the impact challenge methodology in its projects. For this, the team goes into the field to talk to communities and understand experiences from different territories, then selects and pilots innovations that could respond to identified problems through open calls. Projects such as Água+ Acesso, Sustainable Cotton, and Resilient Cities stand out as examples of this approach, with support from partners such as Instituto Coca-Cola, Instituto C&A, and the Avina Foundation.
Aiming for collaborative impact directed at large goals, WTT founded the Innovation Orchestration Center (COI) in 2020. Designed from a mission-oriented innovation approach, the COI begins to drive, through its own methodology, innovation arrangements composed of special scientific teams, social organizations, and funders who, through collaborative and complementary work, develop technological solutions for mapped challenges. Technologies such as bioplastics, greywater reuse, and food biofilm are some examples of projects developed by WTT within the COI. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, iCS, Porticus, FJBSA, CLUA, and Instituto Ibirapitanga are some of the supporters of the COI or initiatives that originated from it.
Currently, WTT works with the COI methodology and manages innovation arrangements for the development of technologies. Additionally, it is dedicated to influencing STI public policies to maximize positive impacts on society, promoting broad and plural participation in the construction of political instruments. The organization also executes change management projects in collaboration with public and private entities to strengthen internal STI capacities.
With an agile and experienced team with expertise in the social and private sectors, WTT remains true to its initial ambition to promote and foster the impact innovation ecosystem in Latin America, building bridges between different actors and promoting collaborative impact innovation. Understanding innovation as a collective process, the co-production of knowledge and innovation is inherent to all WTT programs.
