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Corporate innovations
Key tasks for your business
- Prioritising the R&D programme, identifying long-term and large-scale innovations
- Commercialisation of internal corporate solutions
- In-depth technology research, feasibility testing
- Analysing compliance with global technology levels, identifying the best equivalents
- Pinpointing risks associated with specific emerging technologies
Our services
Auditing innovation capacities
Assessing the level of innovation-driven development
and maturity of companies and measures to improve
them (how internal processes are organised, the
innovation culture, the innovation-driven development
strategy, and key performance indicators)
Technological research and commercialisation of emerging technologies
- Patent research, systematisation and analysis of patent documents, identifying research and technological groundwork
- Researching and evaluating the technical level of the innovation agenda, identifying trends, patterns, and areas and pace of development
- Determining the status of innovation research, including being able to apply it in relevant industries and sectors of the economy and analysing market maturity
- Bibliometric research, reviews of scientific and technical literature, and identifying key areas of scientific research and technological solutions within the framework of a specific innovation issue
- Analysing technical solutions, and assessing their applicability in key scientific and technical areas
- Analysing trends in the use and commercialisation of global research results on innovation issues, recommendations on promising areas of commercialisation related to emerging technical solutions
- Researching the emerging technologies market, establishing a go-to-market approach, including a value proposition, monetisation model, potential partnerships, and feasibility studies
Creating a technological innovation radar. Monitoring the latest technologies and trends. Examining their impact on business
- Detailed business process analysis to identify bottlenecks and potential areas to apply technologies
- Compiling lists of all reliable sources of information on innovations and innovative ideas in selected areas
- Preparing weekly/monthly reviews and selecting the most salient events and examples of applying innovations in a relevant area
- Gauging the potential impact of each event or technology on the company
- Identifying opportunities for investment and growth, as well as potential threats to the company’s business
- Making recommendations on responding to the positive and negative effects of new technologies for each business area
- Developing a target IT architecture to implement innovations/technologies and innovative products in the short, medium, and long term
Start-up integration
- Searching for start-ups, teams, products, and technologies on international markets at the company’s request, with subsequent integration
- Creating requests for innovations within the company
- Establishing a funnel of projects based on request criteria
- Systematisation and selection of projects
- Drawing up a short list of promising projects
- Piloting start-ups
- Integrating start-ups into the client company’s structure
Acceleration of technological processes
- Acceleration of the development of technological projects to scale or close them based on the results of business hypothesis testing
- Management of internal and open market projects
- Use of the following methods: Lean Startup, Agile, Customer development, Design thinking
- Attraction of technology brokers – leading experts with experience in innovation divisions of major science-based companies
Creation of venture funds
- Determining the fund’s concept and its place in the corporate structure of the company
- Developing a business strategy with a feasibility study of potential success and a description of actual venture risks
- Participation in the development of the fund’s strategy
- Increasing the fund’s visibility in the target market
- Arranging a project flow
- Initial screening and support in entering into new transactions
Setting up a corporate innovation function
- Developing mechanisms for finding, assessing, and selecting internal requests for innovation, identifying priority tasks and promising ideas of the company in the area of innovations
- Elaborating methods for market innovation requests, launching and supporting a corporate innovation accelerator, technology scouting and assessing any innovation potential
- Gauging the efficiency of various types of financing of innovative projects, elaborating a methodology for assessing the investment appeal of projects
- Supporting, integrating, and launching innovative projects
Implementing digital products for innovation management
- Setting up the process of collecting internal / external projects and proposals: launching bidding campaigns for internal and external users (tenders, crowdsourcing), in particular using a single catalogue of technologies
- Automating the initial review of projects and proposals: automatic verification of initiatives
- Automating the expert selection process: searching for professionals with the necessary skills and experience; reviewing each expert’s compliance with campaign requirements (education, experience, publications, recommendations, affiliations); evaluating the expert based on statistics of projects executed with their participation.
- Automating the expert review process: configuring parameters, setting the rules of commission activities, assessing and ranking bids, organising the commission’s activity (including the option to mass process groups of bids), adopting a final decision based on voting results
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