Deep tech for humanity
The Technosphere. The Biosphere

A book is never written alone, so I would like to say some word of gratitude.
Dominique J.E. Delporte-Vermeiren, PhD, is an international authority on Deep Tech governance, corporate strategy, innovation, and venture investment, with more than 35 years of experience as an executive, academic, board member, and investor. Working where breakthrough science meets strategic decisions, she finds patterns, opportunities, and paths forward in technologies such as AI, quantum, biotech, semiconductors, and advanced materials. She helps boards, family officers and leaders turn scientific breakthroughs into responsible, lasting, regenerative value for business, society, and the planet.
A leading voice at the meeting point of Deep Tech, governance, and regenerative stewardship.
For those who shape the future and must answer it, this book offers a new playbook.
Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, semiconductors, and advanced materials are changing economies, institutions, and the living world faster than governance can adapt. Boards, founders, and investors now make decisions whose effects will last for generations. Yet the fields that could guide those decisions have seldom met until now. On one side are the laboratories and ventures building Deep Tech. On the other are fiduciary duty, board oversight, and planetary stewardship. This book brings the two together for the first time in a single, coherent framework, drawing on field work with boards, founders, and investors showing how leaders can steward breakthrough technologies with foresight, integrity, and ambition.
It turns complex science into clear questions that leaders can ask and act on, and turns governance principles into practical tools for strategy, risk, and regenerative value creation.
The guiding conviction is simple and demanding ; technology must serve humanity, strengthen the techno sphere, and regenerate the biosphere.
This is essential reading for anyone who is accountable for the future.
The idea for this book began in the United States in 2023, through an examination of biotechnology ventures that were initially framed as “failures” of Deep Tech stewardship. These cases revealed early tensions between innovation velocity, governance maturity, and long-term systemic responsibility in science-based innovation ecosystems.
What emerged was not a set of isolated governance shortcomings, but a deeper structural pattern: the misalignment between frontier innovation and the institutional frameworks designed to oversee it. Subsequent comparative fieldwork across all countries of the EU, the Nordic countries, Argentina, Cyprus, Chile, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates further refined this analysis. Across these diverse ecosystems, a fundamental bifurcation in Deep Tech logic became visible.
