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

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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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