
The dragons were sitting in an elegant den at the Royal Society in London, Britain’s national academy of sciences. Overlooked by portraits of great 18th-century scientists, the judges heard four powerful pitches for science-based businesses.
These included an image analysis system to assess the facial mobility of people who are suffering from paralysing diseases or have had surgery on the face; a “text mining” tool to extract chemical information from the world’s scientific literature; an educational venture, called Big Bang in a Box, to sell images of high-energy particle collisions at Cern’s new atom smasher; and a lightweight material stronger than steel, for use in body armour and the aerospace industry.
BGN is an online productivity tool that connects talented professionals and students interested in helping to increase the global competitiveness of the Philippine high-technology economy.
While always promoting entrepreneurial initiative and a can-do attitude, BGN seeks to convert the "brain drain" into a "Brain Gain" through the following activities:
