Corporate Services

Redesigning corporate product and process lines with low carbon technologies through collaborative innovation can significantly reduce cost, deliver competitive advantage and strengthen innovation pipelines and supply chains

CORPORATE SERVICES

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • We help clients co-develop and/or “buy-in” commercial ready innovations and/or materials into their operations and supply-chains that enhance system efficiency, reduce costs, achieve competitive advantage, and/or reduce embodied carbon in products and services.

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CORPORATE CASE STUDIES

  • Eigen supports leading UK construction company in developing an innovative platform to track and reduce on-site carbon emissions

    Over two years, Eigen supported a leading UK construction company developing an innovative platform to track and reduce on-site carbon emissions. With multiple on-site stakeholders, Eigen mapped and validated the benefits and motivations of adopting the technology for each group and then assessed the broader strategic value of the data being generated which could significantly augmented the value proposition. Eigen advised on the options best suited to a corporate for commercialising an internally developed innovation and helped the lead innovator build internal corporate champions to drive demonstration projects leading to commercial roll-out.

  • Eigen supports a multinational electronics business to spin-out a retrofit PV-Thermal Heat Pump system

    Eigen helped evaluate optimal commercialisation options and implement the plan. This included (i) gathered feedback from route to market partners on interest and installation/ performance requirements, (ii) sourced, screened and introduced potential UK manufacturing partners, (iii) surveyed and then selected two installers for a pilot roll-out, (iv) scoped/ co-managed a survey of c.6000 ‘early adopters’ (v) developed financial and user pay-back models, (vi) costed up and co-write a ‘successful’ £1m grant application for the pilot roll-out. Finally, Eigen sourced and introduced a prospective spin-out business partner/ investor.   

  • Hydrogen Project Funding Study

    On behalf of the Energy Systems Catapult/ Hydrogen Innovation Initiative, in 2024 Eigen interviewed 40 banks, insurers, project developers, advisers and Government entities on how to debt finance hydrogen production facilities ('HPFs'), in particular those receiving subsidies under the HPBM prorgramme. Eigen made recommendations on the commercial and financial aspects of developing HPFs and how to improve access to limited recourse project finance for such first-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects

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