The annual selection of promising entrepreneurs by the World Economic Forum highlights stars in the making

• WEF Announces 2010 Tech Pioneers

  The coveted annual awards program highlights entrepreneurs whose innovations have the potential to change the world

• Slide Show: Future Innovation Leaders

  The annual Tech Pioneers award from the World Economic Forum highlights 26 startups this year with revolutionary breakthroughs in tech, mobile, health care, and energy

• Aura Biosciences Targets a New Era of Cancer Drugs

  A Boston-based startup founded by a Spanish molecular biologist has devised a precise way to deliver chemotherapies inside nanotech protein shields

• Bloom Energy Shifts Power via Fuel Cells

  Breakthrough technology from a richly funded Silicon Valley startup could revolutionize the energy business, especially in the developing world

• CARE Electric: Hydropower Without Dams

  Lifelong inventor Johann Hoffmann has devised a way to harness river power to generate electricity without building expensive, environmentally destructive dams

• CollabNet Fosters Group Innovation in the 'Cloud'

  From corporations to the U.S. Defense Dept., organizations are embracing a new software tool that facilitates remote collaboration and communication

• Obopay Turns Mobile Phones into Banks

  In much of the developing world, bank branches are scare. Obopay aims to fix the problem by making increasingly ubiquitous cell phones into virtual bank offices

• Ushahidi Empowers Global Citizen Journalists

  Set up amid Kenya's election crisis, the African nonprofit gives people an online platform to report on human rights abuses and political problems

• Special Report: 2008 Tech Pioneers

  The World Economic Forum's annual selection of potentially game-changing inventions by entrepreneurs around the world finds plenty of IT, medical, and energy breakthroughs

• Special Report: 2009 Tech Pioneers

  From food and drug safety to mobile commerce and energy innovations, this year's selection of Tech Pioneers by the World Economic Forum is full of bright ideas

• Business Exchange: Davos World Economic Forum

  The Geneva-based WEF conducts dozens of studies and events each year, including the Tech Pioneers. But nothing matches the impact of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland

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