About
Future Literacy exists to help people and institutions build futures worth inhabiting.
We are a small, globally connected strategic firm working on large systemic problems, from the first emerging signal through to deployment in the real world.
Vision
Our Vision
We help companies and institutions understand where the world is going, and turn that understanding into growth, investment and strategic action.
The next decades will be shaped by profound technological, industrial and geopolitical change. They already are. We believe those who understand these shifts early, think long-term and act with purpose will be best positioned to create lasting value.
Future Literacy works at the intersection of technology, industry, markets, government and capital.
We identify emerging opportunities and strategic needs, help organisations understand where they can create value, and turn them into market strategies, business opportunities, partnerships, investment and industrial projects.
Our work brings together strategic intelligence, market development, business development, investment and public affairs to help companies grow, enter new markets and position themselves within the ecosystems that will shape the future.
We also help governments, institutions and industrial ecosystems shape the projects and capabilities needed to deliver their ambitions, connecting the right technology, talent, capital and partners.
We believe long-term competitiveness and broader economic and societal progress can reinforce each other.
The future is not simply something to predict. It is something to understand, shape and build. We've already spent some years making it happen.
What Future Literacy is
Most companies know how to sell products. Few know how markets are created.
Over the past decade, we have helped shape initiatives that later became national programmes, technology ecosystems, strategic infrastructure projects and commercial opportunities involving governments, industry leaders, investors and frontier technology companies.
Some resulted in billion-euro programmes. Others mobilised hundreds of organisations around emerging technologies before they became strategic priorities.
We arrive early, we listen, we imagine the future that can be, and help others shape it. We are there before the mandates. Visions and opportunities do not appear out of nothing, creating them is what gives you the edge.
Founder
“High agency brings you the world.”
María Luque — Founder, Future Literacy Group
María Luque is a serial entrepreneur specialised in creating markets for frontier technologies before they exist.
She builds alliances between governments, industry, capital and innovation to turn emerging technologies into strategic capabilities, markets and investment opportunities.
Over the past decade she has driven pioneering initiatives in artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, space, defence and digital infrastructures across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
She is currently Vice President of the Innovation Commission at the spanish digital industry consortium, Strategy for the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (Internet Society), and advises various international and regional public-private technology ecosystems in the areas of quantum, space and semiconductors.
Network
Future Literacy works through a trusted network of regional partners and collaborators across the world. Below are key points of contact within the FLG network.
Daniel Tan
Regional Development, Southeast Asia
Principles
How we work.
Early
We work before opportunities are obvious and before mandates are written.
In the field
Presence, not desk research. We walk the path we recommend.
Systemic
We design for the whole ecosystem, not for a single actor.
Accountable
Our measure is whether something real exists at the end.
Selected track record
Evidence, not claims.
- 01+ 4 National and sovereign technology strategies shaped
- 02Billion-euro entrepreneurship and innovation programs shaped
- 03Thousands of stakeholders mobilised internationally
- 04Quantum, AI & space clients supported in market development and piloting across North America, the UK and Europe
- 05Strategic partnerships established between governments, companies, international intergovernmental agencies for the past 10 years
- 06+100 Technology deployment pathways assessed
- 07Commercial opportunities, pilots and deployment initiatives supported
Reach
Strategic ecosystems.
European Union
Sovereign infrastructure, dual-use innovation and industrial policy.
Central & Southeast Asia
Strategic infrastructure, connectivity and growth markets.
North America
Frontier technology, capital and deployment ecosystems.