We deliver the services noted below in multiple technology and market areas. Please visit the market expertise tab for more detail.
- R&D and innovation strategy. We identify the key relationships between customer need and your technology or offering.
- New product development – spanning the continuum from ideation to laboratory based development.
- Transformation of basic research into product opportunities.
- Management of Technology and Product development portfolios and major programs including risk mitigation.
- Development team recruitment and coaching.
- Commercialization strategy including:
- Market analysis, business plans and financing options.
- Market validation
- Marketing plans, partnering, pricing strategy, contacts and sales channel.
- Design of laboratory, pilot and demonstration scale evaluations.
- Market, Technology and IP diligence and gap analysis including market analysis and white space identification, operating capabilities, scale-up potential, market assessment, competitive analysis and growth and profitability of your technology.
- Value engineering including component design and material selection to improve product performance and reliability.
- Open Innovation
- Creation and management of purpose-built innovation networks.
- Creating contests, crowdsourcing, and “solver” communities that support your product and reduce your operating costs.
- Protocols for evaluating and testing “solutions” that come to via crowdsourcing.
- Crowd-funding or social entrepreneurship experiments.
- Networked out-sourcing. Greater access valuable human capital, at a fraction of in-house costs.
- Training
- The partners are available to provide training or on-going collaboration with existing organizations and teams.