Technology scouting and roadmapping

RINA supports public bodies, industrial associations and investors in identifying targets and priorities for public and private funded technical developments.

In addition, we provide Technology Scouting and Technology Intelligence activities to large, medium and small sized enterprises, for the analysis of the technology scenario and research trends in industrial areas where they compete.

Service details

Technology scouting and intelligence activities are paramount to support large, medium and small sized enterprises in the decision making processes, to minimize innovation risks and enable the identification and evaluation of technological key factors, to influence future growth and competitiveness of the company business

Main benefits include the availability of a comprehensive review of development paths or solutions, which are evaluated against criteria and KPIs designed by you.

Industrial Road-mapping activities can be performed on average in 8-12 weeks, to guarantee quick decision making while promptly addressing risk areas or competing threads. Road-mapping for a large constituency of stakeholders or public bodies requires a more extensive consensus building approach, which we can manage with proprietary tools and methodologies for priority setting.

Deliverables

Road-mapping activities include:

• Extended look at the future of a specific technological field in order to drive change
• A combination of market, product and technology planning, that allows us to release a structured roadmap focused on a set of promising areas, applications and products
• Assessment of technical challenges in the short, medium and long term
• Identification of the positioning in the market in terms of competitiveness and capacity to support future actions
• Active involvement of expert groups in road-mapping workshops, web forums and surveys
• Identification of technological priorities to focus efforts and resources.

Scouting and intelligence activities comprise:

• Assessment of intellectual and physical assets
• Identification of emerging opportunities and research trends, innovation gaps, competitors’ activity and IPR landscape
• Identification of promising concepts and solutions, by means of inventive problem solving and technical troubleshooting, technology spin-out and spin-in
• Identification of opportunities for technologic upscale
• Evaluation of the technological and non-technological factors that could impact on innovation development: technical feasibility, time to market, technology sourcing, IPR securing opportunities, market positioning.

Why RINA?

Our buying drivers for this service line include:

• Multi-disciplinary skills
• Access to a wide international network of knowledge centres
• Market proven methodologies
• Technological neutrality
• Confidentiality (we keep secrets and perform blind negotiations with third parties on behalf of customers)
• Quick decision making instruments.