A Deep Dive into Innovation Scouting

Innovation sprouts out of many different avenues, including corporate research hubs, incubators, accelerators, and University IP Technology Transfer activities. In order to effectively tap into the treasure trove of emerging innovative products, corporations must implement results-oriented scouting models.

Setting up an Innovation Program

Learn how to foster a culture of innovation, set and measure incentives and create a functioning innovation program for your organisation or mission.

Fostering business incubation in Pakistan

Uzair Shahid is in charge of the core incubation program at the Takhleeq Business Incubator, where he is developing a recipe for impactful incubation within a private university setting.

Evaluating Innovation with Scorecards

In this article we are looking at using scorecards to evaluate innovations, innovators, ideas and present a number of best practice scorecards sourced from various use cases.

Methods for evaluating Innovation from Ideas to Startups

The term evaluation applies to a vast array of methods from evidence-based financial methods, or pattern matching, to purely experience based gut-feeling. Each of these has it’s place in the innovation scouting process at different times. Learn about the four distinct categories of evaluation.

The Innovation Scouting Process

As organisations grow and innovation leads become numerous they need to start adding dedicated resources so that leads don’t start falling through the cracks. Learn how to create a best practice structured innovation scouting process.

What is Innovation Scouting?

How does innovation scouting fit into an open innovation discovery process. When is it right? What do you need to beware of when choosing to go down this route?