Ecosystem
All of our partners recognise the importance of collaboration in effective innovation practices and regularly publish content to support businesses to scale globally.
Check out their respective pages and discover how they can support your specific innovation journey.
EnergyLab is Australia and New Zealand’s largest climate tech startup accelerator, supporting entrepreneurs who are leading the transition to net-zero.
Through a network of founders, mentors, investors, and industry partners, EnergyLab helps startups scale innovative technologies that decarbonise energy, mobility, and the built environment.
Its mission is to accelerate the commercialisation of clean energy solutions and strengthen collaboration across the Asia-Pacific innovation ecosystem to drive a sustainable future.
HKSTP is dedicated to positioning Hong Kong as a leading international innovation and technology hub. It supports talent development, accelerates commercialisation, and enables entrepreneurs to scale across Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, Asia and beyond. Its ecosystem now includes 12 unicorns, more than 16,000 research professionals and over 2,400 tech companies in areas such as healthtech, AI and robotics, fintech and smart city. Through its R&D infrastructure, partner networks, and three InnoParks driving new industrialisation, HKSTP is helping establish I&T as a key growth pillar for Hong Kong and a launchpad for global expansion.
Innovate UK is part of UK Research and Innovation and their mission is to help companies to grow through their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate.
SET supports innovation in energy & climate tech.
They believe that a sustainable future is directly linked to innovative business models and political will. The SET platform is powered by the German Energy Agency (dena), in cooperation with the World Energy Council.
SET’s mission is to strengthen the impact of energy innovators in reaching climate neutrality. They support, promote, and create opportunities for start-ups in the energy sector to scale-up impact and accelerate the global energy transition in order to reverse climate change.
COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION
Since 2018, Beta-i has supported Free Electrons, working closely with the utilities to operationalize and evolve the program.
Beta-i is an innovation consultancy with a global reach, helping world-class companies to accelerate their innovation journey. With offices in Lisbon, Brussels, Boston, and São Paulo, Beta-i brings over a decade of experience in orchestrating collaborations between corporates and startups, developing tailored innovation methodologies, and executing high-impact programs in various sectors.
Involved in Free Electrons since 2018, Beta-i supports utilities and startups with deep expertise in pilot design, ecosystem building, and strategic alignment - facilitating development of scalable solutions for the energy transition.
