Healthcare

1. Next-generation Biologics

   Advances in protein engineering addressing new target classes that untl now have been challenging for antibody-based approaches

2. Targeted Drug Delivery

   Technologies for organ, tissue or cell-line specific delivery of small molecule or biologic therapeutics, including RNAi

3. Immunomodulation

   Therapeutics for controlled activation or de-activation of immune system function, excluding cancer immunotherapy

4. New Mechanisms for CNS Disease

   Disease-modifying approaches for major CNS disorders such as Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, depression, epilepsy, Parkinson's

5. Capital-Efficient Drug Development Strategies

   New strategies for streamlining drug development using biomarker-based patient stratification, offshoring of selected studies, drug repositioning

6. Minimally Invasive Therapeutics

   Disruptive innovations that address important unmet clinical needs and which possess superior safety, efficacy and cost profiles relative to existing alternatives

7. Therapy Enabling Technologies

   Novel innovations that provide significant clinical value by enabling clinicians and patients to address costly and clinically relevant inefficiencies in the delivery of care. These innovations may include diagnostics, imaging, robotics, drug delivery, and technology enabled services

8. Digitization

   Solutions that leverage digitization platforms and proprietary algorithms to guide therapies, enhance workflows and improve accuracy of diagnostic efforts

IT

1. Performance Marketing

   Enabling technologies or services that provide advertisers with the ability to better target their marketing spending and measure its impact, particularly in the online and mobile markets

2. Software as a Service (SaaS)

   Business applications and services that are hosted online and sold on a subscription, as-needed basis

3. Social Media Engagement

   Applications that enable businesses to interact and engage with their customer via social media

4. Cloud Computing and Dynamic Data Center

   Software, services, and enabling technologies to facilitate the consumption of computing resources like computing cycles, memory, and bandwidth on an as-needed basis

5. Mobile Platforms

   Platforms and enabling technologies that facilitate the creation of new applicatins and services on mobile networks and devices

6. Internet Video

   Products and services that enable the distribution, consumption, and monetization of video via the Web

Cleantech

1. Green Chemicals

   Alternatives to petroleum-based chemicals and materials like bio-plastics, bio-polymers and hybrid bio-chemical compounds with improved environmental profile and reduced costs

2. Green Building Materials

   New technologies and materials for improving the energy efficiency and carbon footprint of new and retrofitted buildings

3. Geothermal

   New and improved equipment and technologies for the generation of base load renewable power from both natural and engineering geothermal reservoir

4. Water

   New technologies and service models for the purification, cleaning, re-use and desalination of water for the industrial, commercial and heavy industry sectors

5. Oil & Gas Technologies and Services

   Improved isolation, identification and extraction technologies and services for the oil, natural gas, coalbed methane, oil shale and oil sands segments