Date & Time
Friday, October 16, 09:00–17:30
Location
ESMT Berlin
Schlossplatz 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Sponsor
TEAM GLOBAL Chair for Disruptive Innovation
Registration Fees
- Non‑Member: $162
- SMS Member: $135
Event Overview
The event “Deep-Tech, Startups, and the Rebirth of Industrial Strategy” examines how deep-tech industries (e.g., semiconductors, energy, life sciences) are reshaping strategy in response to growing geo-economic fragmentation and renewed industrial policy. It frames deep-tech innovation as a coordination challenge across firms, startups, investors, academia, and policymakers, where traditional assumptions about global scale, market access, and capital are increasingly constrained by political and regulatory forces. The program combines keynotes on deep-tech industry transitions, an academic panel on how fragmentation alters competitive advantage, a case-based deep dive into the deeptech ecosystem, and a practitioner–policy panel on regulation and ecosystem building, ultimately highlighting how firms can build and sustain competitive advantage under conditions of geopolitical complexity, regulatory divergence, and regionally anchored innovation systems.
Key Questions
- How can deeptech firms build an advantage when global scale is no longer guaranteed?
- How can ecosystems be coordinated across fragmented regions and institutions?
- How can firms manage combined technological, financial, and geopolitical uncertainty?
- How does industrial policy reshape where and how firms compete?