What We Do Detail
New growth sources & competitive advantage
with minimal risk & time resources
• Targeted protected/protectable technology search
• Commercial opportunity assessment
• Technology analysis
• Prototypes of products tested on customers
• Customer insight gathering (focus groups, in-depth interviews, product concept development and testing)
Competitive Protection
and IP Assets Advice
• IP strategy development
• Patent due diligence
• Technology & Deal Valuation
• Company Valuation
• Financial Modelling

Additionally we offer selected technologies for licensing & ventures to invest in. Further information is available here.

What is in it for industry partners?
We are a partner for the industry in meeting their long term growth and differentiation goals through mitigating some of the development risk that the companies otherwise carry alone. Collaborative projects provide access for large corporations to scientific institutions and ground research helping to advance both the social well-being and individual company goals.

How to make it work?
We provide client companies with access to a broad range of innovative product or technology ideas that are nearly market ready, thereby both mitigating early-stage innovation risks and lowering the time to market without significantly increasing acquisition costs. In return, we expect a share of the revenues that client companies get from commercializing the new products.
Unlike venture capitalists and other late-stage intermediaries, however, we don’t add value primarily in the form of capital investments. We invest our resources for refining the product idea rather than for building an organization or a management infrastructure around it. We contribute a unique combination of industry, market, networking, and innovation management skills, and assume some development risk.
Such relationships ensure that each partner is aware of the other’s decision criteria and processes, making for smoother negotiations in product or technology commercialization deals. Furthermore, the client company can tacitly agree to give all our proposals serious consideration in return for the first look at new ideas. Client companies should provide us with direction and guidance – for instance, by sharing information about product gaps, innovation priorities, and business goals. Knowing the client’s goals enables us to match them with promising ideas and concepts from our inventor networks and to evaluate those ideas in terms of the client’s market size, profit margins, and commercialization infrastructure.

Constant development of new services
Currently, we are developing a new application for our partners - A Knowledge Sharing Platform service. The latter would enable our partners significant savings in monetary terms and time - This service is currently unavailable and is due in 2011.