Top VC firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures have jumped on the bandwagon by launching sector-specific funds dedicated to life sciences.
Israel-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is launching a sector specific fund fully focused on digital health — touting it as Israel's first fund with such a focus.
Since 2003, China has been launching health sector reform gradually and implementing a specific policy package.
This is in spite of the failure of the first launch of Ariane 5 in December 2002, an event that had an immediate detrimental effect on the economic outlook for the European launch sector.
On the funds and VC side, Al-Dabbagh in 2005 seeded the venture capital and private equity investment industry in Saudi Arabia by launching four sector-focused funds managed completely by the private sector and raising nearly US$1.7 billion of capital in the process (all with foreign equity and HR components).
Nissan's model might be bland – in my view all crossovers are – but it has sold like hot cakes since it launched the sector in 2006.
Our French colleagues have launched a sector inquiry on big data.
In the early 1990s, multilateral donor agencies, such as the World Bank, launched health sector reform projects in many developing countries [ 3, 4].
3 In the same vein, in France in 2013, the Minister of Industry and Growth, and the Junior Minister for the Elderly and Independence jointly launched a sector called "Silver Economy", aiming at the creation of personalized services and technologies for maintaining autonomy in older people.
Companies from Microsoft to FitBit have jumped into the sector, launching wearables that help track the user's performance and also improve their fitness.
The forthcoming higher education white paper will likely further seek to marketise the sector, launching a race to the bottom with private outfits first leeching off then asset-stripping our publicly funded universities to offer knockdown education at a profit.
