01 STRATEGIZE

Technological advancements occur every day, leading to new applications and opportunities everywhere. However, technology, for technology’s sake, is merely a novelty. Technology is only as valuable as the experience it improves or the new growth it creates. Technology can be costly without a strategy, with very little return on investment.

Our approach to strategy is the adaptive approach, which works well in highly unpredictable industries that are also not easily shapeable. Here, the competitive conditions are highly volatile, and the technology is continuously changing. As this environment doesn’t allow us to plan, we use a more organic approach.

Essentially, we create variation, select what works, implement it, and scale it. Then, the cycle begins again. We could say that this adaptive strategy emerges continuously from successful experiments.

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02VALORIZE

Valorization is creating value from knowledge by making knowledge suitable and available for economic and societal use and translating that knowledge into competitive products, services, processes, and entrepreneurial activity.

Organizations that develop new technologies protected by patents have many reasons to determine their values. Valuations help raise capital, facilitate a transaction such as a license or joint venture, comply with tax regulations and incentives (SIFIDE and Patent Box) or financial reporting requirements, calculate damages in commercial litigation, or assist with internal decision-making.

Patents contain valuable technical information about how an invention works. Although you can’t copy that information, you can still use it for competitor tracking, strategic planning, and decision-making. We help companies transform emerging and under-leveraged technology assets into new revenue-generating businesses, products, and services.

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03FUND

We assess the relevance of your projects and identify the most appropriate funding programs. Based on project evaluation, we define a forward-looking funding strategy that enables you to utilize the potential of many different funding programs in all development stages of your projects. We assist you in formalizing the project, the application, the budget, and negotiating partnerships.

We help companies and private or public organizations fund innovation projects in cooperation with research institutions. For some large-budget projects, other companies can subcontract us to establish task force teams to tackle big and complex projects.

There are many public funding schemes, and gaining a complete overview of all the possibilities is difficult. We continuously monitor the market for funding opportunities and use our knowledge of the Portuguese and European funding programs. We can identify the most relevant opportunities for your organization.

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04EXECUTE

Project management is initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet defined success criteria at a particular time.

Sometimes, you must outsource a project manager to bring the expertise necessary to execute a project effectively and efficiently. For these attributes, it’s fundamental to have an implementation methodology for that project manager to succeed.

From capabilities to processes, from talent to funding management, we help empower our clients with the knowledge, people, and tools they need to enable sustainable project implementation in their organization.

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05EVALUATE

Any innovation team needs to continuously measure and evaluate progress towards each next milestone of the innovation transformation program. In case of gaps or surprises, the team needs to review the assumptions, models, and processes involved and promptly make the right decisions to ensure alignment with the overall strategic innovation plan.

Evaluations include:

• Ex-ante impact assessments.
• Mid-term evaluations.
• Peer reviews.
• Ex-post evaluations.
• Short and long-term impact assessments.

Our extensive experience allows us to conduct evaluations at project, program, portfolio, institutional, and innovation system levels.

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