Peter Higgins

Rapid Innovation Group

Rapid Innovation Group (RIG) is a commercialisation firm focused on high impact industrial technologies that have a global application where defensibility is primarily based on the strength of their intellectual property. We partner with innovators and pioneers. Our clients are emerging, high potential companies located predominantly in the sustainable technology ecosystem. We operate internationally within a broader network of investors, corporates, and innovation funding bodies. Our core expertise and experience is centred around addressing the specific challenges associated with commercialisation in the pioneering and early growth stages. We apply a specialist stage-specific skillset to pioneer the commercialisation of new technologies as they seek to navigate the journey from the lab, through initial adoption and growth, to early scale. We operate around a small number of overlapping thematic practice areas. These include: industrial decarbonisation and energy efficiency; advanced materials; agrifood and water; and circular economy. These practices are defined by the companies we work with, by the evolving interests and competence of our people, and by the strategic desire to impact macro sustainability, climate change, and biodiversity challenges. We see the shift to a sustainable, clean, low carbon economy as an urgent, existential, and moral imperative as well as an immense economic and investment opportunity. We acknowledge there is now an acute need for speed and for an exponential increase in investment and adoption.