Insights

Category
Technology scouting is more than Google searches and list generation. Strong scouts use the strength of their network, cross-industry experience, a powerful will, and more to find actionable solutions for their clients.
The United States Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), alongside the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have announced the InDEEP challenge. The prize looks for distributed embedded energy converter technologies (DEEC-Tec) that...
Syngenta has launched a portal with yet2’s support. Syngenta Group Launches New Agricultural Innovation Collaboration and Accelerator Platform to Address Critical Scientific and Technological Challenges “Shoots by Syngenta” platform unveiled to facilitate...
Incubators and accelerators are instrumental in driving startup companies toward success. yet2 has cultivated a proprietary database of the top 1000 incubators and accelerators worldwide that we use as a valuable scouting...
For over twenty years, yet2 has created opportunities in diverse fields. Since 2014, we have scouted innovation across 19 industries and 44 categories. Project diversity exposes us to creative and unexpected possibilities...
This year yet2 project leader Emma Chapelhow visited Lamma 2023, hosted in Birmingham UK, to learn more about the latest innovations in Agritech. Lamma is the UK’s premier farm machinery event, showcasing...
“We won’t get any quality submissions to our Open Innovation Portal” “Portals will expose us to contaminating IP” “We can manage all of the submissions ourselves” “It will be easier to build...
Over the last decade, yet2 has worked with NASA on more than 50 technology scouting projects, identifying an array of cutting-edge technologies relevant to space exploration. This February, the yet2 team attended...
Words by Carlos Pichardo yet2 recently shared some insights on the hottest trend in scouting: Contract Manufacturing Organizations. Given yet2’s experience connecting clients to suitable CMOs, we thought it helpful to put...
To wrap up 2022, yet2 are looking back at our successes over the last 12 months. One of the ways we measure our success is through getting our clients to a deal...
DALL·E 2, an Artificial intelligence system that creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language. As innovation experts we strive to innovate our own processes, recently we shared our...
As leaders in Open Innovation, at yet2 we strive to innovate ourselves. Using Big Data in our own scouting activities has been an investment we’ve been making over the few years. Though...
The yet2 team is thankful for another great year supporting our clients across technology scouting and Open Innovation advising. Among the highlights are a record number of deals completed for our clients,...
Words by Carlos Pichardo Technology and digitisation has transformed how we connect globally. We can package and deliver cross-Atlantic packages in less than a week, control our homes from our phones, and...
The yet2 team ventured to Copenhagen for the Innovation Roundtable Summit, this time as diamond sponsors, excited to attend a face-to-face event for the first time in 3 years. Part of our...
yet2 is a Diamond Sponsor of this year’s Innovation Roundtable Summit 2022 in Copenhagen. yet2 has been Igniting Innovation for over 20 years, come and see how we can help you implement...
For the first time in 3 years, the global team traveled to Boston to conduct our annual offsite event. It was great for the team to come together after so long specially...
by Carlos Pichardo (yet2 intern) On the road of innovation, there can be obstacles. Maneuvering these uncertainties requires understanding, an abundance of resources, and the ability to capitalize on an opportunity. yet2’s...
Often, when looking to the world around us for inspiration, we find that nature has already laid the groundwork. Mimicking or harnessing biological processes is integral for the innovation of new technologies.
This is part of a series of blog posts where we highlight members of the global yet2 team. We recently spoke with Associate Project Lead, Paul Crosnier. How many years have you...
  “Software is eating the world” … or something like that. For a given application area, there are now dozens if not hundreds of software platforms to choose from, and it’s becoming...
On June 9th Emma, Hayden and Imran took their talents on the road to the Med-Tech Innovation Expo at the National Exhibition Center outside of Birmingham in the UK. The Med-Tech Innovation...
  Life science scouting projects are some of the more popular topics amongst the project team at yet2. With the pace of scientific innovation accelerating so quickly, the topics always focus on...
While the term “artificial intelligence” itself may be new, ever since humankind started building devices that could move on their own, we’ve imagined the facsimile of life. Early examples of conceptual automata...