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| IP Advancement Labs | | Technologies and Trends Driving
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Ramp identifies underlying market trends that create new mass-demand and finds technology that can be commercialized to fill the void. The companies and code-named projects listed on page 10 as possible investments in the Ramp portfolio all hold technologies that help meet this demand.
- A plethora of portable products are entering world markets. They drive a need for smaller, lighter, more powerful, and longer-lived batteries and fuel cells. We are investigating solutions emerging from the domains of energy management, nano-scale sciences, and advanced computing algorithms.
- Portable media players and Internet-based appliances are demanding improved wireless data access and networks. Innovative solutions in communications technologies and nano-scale science are being found.
- Users and makers of all types of electronic products are clamoring for better product security. Many forms of enhanced security are emerging from advanced computing research.
- Many are searching for alternative energy sources and solutions related to the conservation of energy. There are innovative materials and processes being developed in corporate and university environments that need commercialization expertise such as that which Ramp offers.
- Public corporations do not attract risk-taking innovators, and find it hard to be nimble in fast moving markets. They are increasingly interested in licensing technology-based solutions for their existing markets. Amortizing the costs of acquisitions continues to be more attractive to corporate managers than bearing the direct costs and risks of internal research groups.
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