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    Track 3 · Imagine Next Global Innovation Challenge 2027

    Research

    For lab- and concept-stage technologies not yet formed into a company.

    Apply from November 17All four tracks

    The track

    What qualifies.

    • Lab-stage technologies
    • Prototypes and proofs of concept
    • Materials and process discoveries
    • Independent inventions

    Open to

    Researchers, labs, students, independent inventors

    Finalists meet

    Research funders, venture builders, corporate R&D

    Path forward

    Support toward partnerships, follow-on research, or company formation

    Every entry is evaluated with the Symbiotic Matrix, where planetary benefit makes up half of every score. See your invention the way our jury will →