The world continues to evolve at a striking pace and business needs are rapidly shifting to keep up with advances in digital technology and fast changing consumer demands. For companies that rely on innovation and product development for growth and competitive differentiation, the urgency to... Read More

The tech scouts we work with have shared their deepest fears and past blunders. Here’s some strategies to avoid the same fate: Read More

Sopheon customer Parker Hannifin® has deep roots in innovation. Back in the 1930s, Parker Appliance (now Parker Hannifin) launched copper tubing for hydraulic installation to market before anyone else, and was also the first to use tubing for the instrumentation of power plants. 1 Fast forward to... Read More

Technology scouting remains vital for the innovation of organizations, yet you do not consider yourself to be a tech scout. Maybe you should. Although it may not be in your job title, tech scouting is most likely embedded in your job description. Even though there are few dedicated tech scouts,... Read More

The strategic roadmapping method is widely used to support innovation and strategy, ranging from product planning to business strategy and public policy development. The approach is agile and flexible, and can be readily adapted to suit the particular business context and strategic issues of... Read More

With global digitization and consumer power driving a faster rate of change in markets than ever before, companies are updating business process models to be lean, dynamic and responsive to shifting conditions. Modernizing the Stage-Gate ® methodology to adapt to this new world, Dr. Robert Cooper... Read More

“The Biotech industry is, by its very nature, a live representation of the trophic cascades and a field that ruled by pure Darwinism,” as I noted at the “start-ups and tech transfer” roundtable session during the American Society for Cell Biology in San Diego, CA last year. Read More

Nearly every Olympics, we hear about a new broken world record in one sport or another. While much of this can be attributed to better training, coaching, and dietary techniques, the headlines never focus on the impact that technology has on these records. Although we like to believe that new... Read More

Identifying cutting-edge technology is simply the first step of technology scouting. The key to effective tech scouting is to capture the right opportunity at the right time. We assembled a list of five tactics to help you streamline your process. Read More

Is it time to rethink the nearly twenty-eight-year-old technology readiness level (TRL) framework? The TRL is by far the most popular evaluation framework for corporate technology scouts, but although it can easily be applied to a wide range of opportunities, the generality of the system ignores... Read More