IVA’s 100 List: current research with potential to create value

Shipping handles 90% of world trade, contributing 3 % to global GHG emissions. We developed an innovative wind-assisted propulsion system for commercial vessels.

The steel industry faces challenges in achieving circularity, primarily due to the complexity of scrap sorting.

Global population growth, unequal distribution of water resources reinforced by climate change, and industrial development cause a sharp increase in freshwater demand. Cavitating microbubbles are a novel, ecologically and economically efficient, chemical-free approach to clean water from PFAS, bacteria, and pharmaceutical residues.

By harnessing the chemical diversity of ions, Sverion provides superlative lubricants with unprecedented levels of flexible functionality and minimised environmental footprint.

We help industrial companies tackle the challenge of managing vast amounts of product data scattered across different software applications used during product development.

Most skincare products fail to work as promised; only 1-5% of active ingredients penetrate the skin’s outer layer. This limits complex treatments like gene therapies or mRNA-based treatments for conditions such as eczema or skin aging, resulting in ineffective results and high costs.

The Orb DB project adds predictive AI query capabilities to graph data with built-in confidence guarantees to deal with the demands of critical sectors such as healthcare, telecommunications, and urban planning.

Clean energy transition is urgent, but today’s electrical grid cannot handle the high volatility of distributed energy resources, such as renewables (e.g., solar generation and wind power), electric vehicles and new loads (e.g., hydrogen, heat pump), leading to significant stability challenges.

Microelectronics have transformed the lives of every person on the planet, since their invention in the 1950s. By the magic of miniaturization, every new generation of electronic chips dramatically outperformed its predecessor, bringing us inventions such as the Internet and AI.

Sepsis causes 20% of all deaths globally, affecting 5 million people yearly in the EU and US. While a patient can go from symptoms to death in <1 day, finding the infection-causing pathogen can take up to 7 days. The current procedure, blood culturing, requires bacteria to grow up to a million times to reach detection limits.