The Asia Innovation Initiative is a pan-Asian annual meeting to discuss the key innovations that Asian corporations and countries need to leverage or to engineer to sustain high growth rates. The agenda of the Asia Innovation Initiative encompasses the contemporary drivers shaping the competitiveness of the region's corporate champions, from technological developments, business and marketing strategies, financial innovations to the social and political context in the region and the global environment.

The Asia Innovation Initiative is a catalyst for innovative regional approaches to some of the technology and business challenges most relevant to the future of Asia, and for the emergence of new entrepreneurial ventures. It brings together the best and the brightest among the new entrepreneurs from the region and the established business leaders and investors - thus generating a propitious context for fostering future business developments. It also acts as an incubator in highlighting new companies, new business leaders and new projects that help expand and sustain the innovation capabilities of the region.

Building on the success of the inaugural meeting, the 2nd edition of the Asia Innovation initiative will bring together about 400 of the best and brightest among established business leaders, top thinkers, academics, and new entrepreneurs in the region. The theme of the 2008 meeting is "Sustaining Asia 's Pillars of Growth."

The Asia Innovation Initiative aims not only at strengthening business and policy linkages throughout the region but contributes also to the process of economic and business integration taking place in Asia. The Asia Innovation Initiative issues an annual Executive Report highlighting the recommendations and policy ideas generated during the discussions, which is widely distributed throughout the region.

The Asia Innovation Initiative concept is to provide a venue to promote promising technologies and entrepreneurial efforts that will lead to the emergence of new businesses and industries as well as greater innovation in Asia.