Pandemic has highlighted the role of technological innovation

AS A result of the new socially-distanced reality, the digital economy could be relabelled the Covid economy. Investors are seeing an increasing pace of technological change, alongside a growing need to adopt and integrate innovation along all stages of the investment spectrum.

Early-stage technology opportunities are becoming more appealing, despite their high-risk, high-reward profile. Today, institutional and sovereign investors should view the digital economy and technological innovation as a vanguard against disruption and a champion for sustainability.

Before the pandemic, the pace of technological change had begun to restructure the foundations of the global economy. New technologies - such as data and energy storage, and renewable hydrogen infrastructure - are emerging to become tomorrow's utilities and infrastructure.