Hampton Creek’s dedication to producing healthy, more sustainable foods bore new fruit in 2014, as the ‘Just Cookies’ range was added to the already-popular ‘Just Mayo’. Each packet of cookies uses 2,000 fewer gallons of water, requires seven fewer square metres of land, and contains 3,000 fewer mg of cholesterol than conventional cookies

At the beginning of 2014, the Tory Burch Foundation announced it was partnering with Bank of America on Elizabeth Street Capital, which is designed to provide early-stage women entrepreneurs in the US with access to low-cost capital, mentoring support and important business networking opportunities

In late 2014, Arkema presented various new materials to the waiting tech world, including the high-performance polymer ‘PEKK’, which will advance the thermoplastics industry, and acrylate resins that will be used in 3D printing. Through its innovative chemical research, Arkema continues to push the boundaries in a number of industries

Google tends to be associated with driverless cars, but BMW has been developing and testing them since 2005, and made waves at CES in 2014 with its demonstration of a modified version of the M235i Coupe, which can brake, steer and accelerate without a driver. The car has been extensively tested on the Nürburgring in Germany, and, though the technology is still some way off being widely used, this felt like progress