It is most often used to solve the following tasks
- improving the efficiency of current production and the competitiveness of existing products through the use of new raw materials and the best available technologies
- obtaining new revenue by expanding the product portfolio
Tools
- Technological landscaping
- Spot search for technologies and competencies
Technological landscaping
- The purpose of using the tool is to expand the customer's understanding of strategic technological directions, as well as the opportunities that they provide
Approximate composition of works:
- Search for projects and groundwork in Russian industry databases
- Search for foreign projects and achievements based on open sources of information (using open databases of technoparks, business incubators, etc.)
- Patent search
- Creating profiles of found projects
- Mapping the technological landscape
Spot search for technologies
The purpose of using the tool is to proactively identify innovative companies and teams that potentially have ready-made solutions, scientific and technical reserves and competencies that meet the technological request of the customer
Approximate composition of works:
- Conducting a search for projects (technologies), including by industry databases of projects in specified technological areas
- Creating a loglist with basic information about projects (technologies)
- Joint selection of the most relevant technologies with the customer (making a shortlist)
- Collecting additional information on projects from the shortlist in accordance with the customer's requirements
- Initial interaction with the teams of project performers selected by the customer, for readiness to cooperate with the customer
- (optional) Assistance in attracting additional funding from state sources
Problems with found projects
- The need for primary expertise and updating of the status/stage of development
- Difficulty in establishing contact
- The need to attract additional funding (to increase the development stage or develop a new direction of the project)
The ABIT team has extensive experience:
- Conducting technological and commercial expertise
- Interactions with development teams
- Attracting additional funding to projects
ABIT tools and data sources
- Database of projects that have received state funding
- The database of companies corresponding to the directions of NTI
- Network of Technology Brokers (ABIT)
- Expert databases (including partner databases)
- Project search and evaluation tools (patent search, technological and commercial expertise, TPRL methodology)