Corporate Innovation.
Redesigning corporate product and process lines with low carbon technologies can significantly reduce cost, deliver competitive advantage and strengthen innovation pipelines and supply chains
Technology Scouting
We target, approach, screen, and select technology innovators that meet defined strategic needs of our corporate partners. Innovators are vetted on their potential synergistic and/or financial value to partners and relationships facilitated through a structured engagement plan to assess and establish fit.
Innovation Gap Analysis
Understand company challenges and innovation priorities against strategic objectives and run gap analysis to scope scouting requirements
Technology Scouting
Research, target, approach, screen, and select tech innovators based on potential synergistic and/or financial value to partners against requirements
Engagement
Facilitate innovator-partner introductions and relationships through structured, multimodal engagement activities and outcome monitoring
Limiting innovation sources to existing teams and suppliers misses opportunities to build competitive advantage and constrains the speed at which companies can meet their growth and sustainability objectives
Collaborative innovation with climate tech innovators is critical for companies to access high-growth markets, cut costs and reduce environmental impact
Innovation Projects
We help structure innovation projects between innovators and corporate partners that offer mutually workable options for future exploitation appropriate to the stage and type of technology. Where needed, we assess or line up additional funding options for projects through engagement with public and private sector funding networks
Tailored Projects
Structure innovation project agreements with innovators, appropriate to the technology type/stage, that have mutually workable options for exploitation
Funding Guidance
Assess or line up funding options (if not fully corporately funded) to deliver innovation projects through public and private sector networks
Monitoring & Adaptation
Monitor/manage individual project progress against defined success metrics and facilitate adaption to changing needs as they arise.
Innovation Challenges
We frame and launch innovation challenge calls to draw in ground-breaking, market innovation to solve corporate challenges and drive growth strategies. We then de-risk innovator technologies and business models through mentorship, business support and access to networks to enhance the potential and value of future partnerships.
Challenge Scoping
Define the company innovation challenge and opportunity to address, establish objectives and KPIs, and scope targeted thematic innovation areas
Innovation Challenge
Design, launch and deliver open challenge calls for collaborative innovation to establish high-quality innovation pipelines against thematic priorities
Innovation Acceleration
Deliver mentorship, business support and network access to support innovators derisk technologies and ready them for collaboration with corporate partners
