Open Innovation and Technology Scouting

Overview

CambridgeIP's Open Innovation offering helps organisations benefit from external initiatives in their field of endeavour.

Key features & benefits include:

• Systematic and comprehensive data driven research - we provide facts in relation to R&D trends and specific opportunities
• Software enabled expert analysis that is efficient, repeatable and 'CXO compatible' - we provide results fast, that are easy for executives to understand
• Network analysis makes existing R&D relationships explicit, highlighting key players & new entrants
• Consultative assistance and advice from a team that has hands-on experience of Open Innovation activities in over 100 projects within CambridgeIP and in working on M&A, in- and out-licensing, innovation finance and R&D in both academic and corporate environments

Our clients use our Open Innovation capabilities to:

• Access relevant R&D concepts, developments and IP through collaborations, license-in and outright acquisitions
• Secure partners for collaborative R&D developments and marketing/distribution projects
• Benefit from partner's existing paths to market for their technologies
• Understand internal IP assets and how best to exploit these, including by identifying new licence-out opportunities
• Understand how best to position their developments to corporate partners, and determine optimal IP strategies.