Investment strategy: Innovations outside the tech sector

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Frankfurt Evelyne Pflugi, CEO and co-founder of the Singularity Group, is firmly convinced that groundbreaking innovations should not necessarily be expected from the established tech companies from Silicon Valley. “Innovation is increasingly taking place outside of the tech sector,” says the manager of the Swiss investment boutique.

In a global survey of around 400 executives, the investment company has now investigated how innovations generate value from which investors can ultimately benefit.

According to Pflugi, this has shown that you can not only benefit from new technologies through private investments in start-ups. Because even “in the listed sector, there is great innovative value to be found,” she says. It is characteristic that not a single technology dominates. Rather, it is “the convergence of several innovations that creates value in companies,” she describes one of the results of the analysis.

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