Technology Scouting

Strategically Navigate the Future of Innovation with Confidence

Near-Term Topic-Specific Scouting

In today’s fast-paced innovation landscape, quickly identifying and leveraging new technologies is key to staying ahead.

Our scouting service offers unparalleled insights through access to millions of proprietary data points. With 25+ years of Open Innovation expertise, we uncover non-obvious solutions and seamlessly embed into your processes, providing customized support from scouting to partnerships. Our proven results, including a 20% annual increase in deal counts, deliver real-world impact that drives success.

  • Urgent Need for Information: Rapidly gather insights on emerging technologies, market opportunities, or potential threats.
  • Limited Internal Resources: Leverage yet2’s expertise to expand your scouting capabilities without straining your team.
  • Uncertain Market Landscape: Quickly assess the relevance and potential of innovations, whether they represent opportunities or threats within your specific industry.

Long-Term Technology Scouting

Strategically Navigate the Future of Innovation with Confidence.

Our service provides a deep dive into emerging technologies, market trends, and potential disruptors that could impact your business, products, supply chains, competitors, and industry. Future-proof your business and innovation pipeline by getting a head start on understanding the landscape of emerging technologies, whether they pose a strategic opportunity or threat.

  • Lack of Future Readiness: Proactively identify emerging technologies and prepare for technological shifts and market disruptions.
  • Strategic Uncertainty: Gain a clear understanding of new technologies and the potential impact they’ll have on your markets, customers, and supply chains.
  • Overwhelming Hype: Filter through vast amounts of data and noise to understand a technology’s Comparative Value Proposition, actual commercialization timelines, and real relevant use-cases.

Innovation Tours & Virtual Hubs

Innovation Tours offer a unique, immersive experience in some of the world's leading innovation ecosystems.

Using yet2’s network, gain unparalleled access to global innovation ecosystems, connecting you with decision-makers and cutting-edge technologies emerging from global city and regional innovation hubs.

We have clients and partners in these regions as well as a physical presence in UK & Japan, giving us boots on the ground in the ecosystem that makes executing, seamless.

Our expert team undertakes all logistics including up-front scouting, filtering of strongest candidates, coaching candidates, day-of logistics and facilitation of action items coming out of the tour. 

Whether you are looking to break into a specific industry, meet with local startups, and research institutions, or gain insights into emerging technologies, our tailored tours aim to meet your needs.

  • Real-Time Collaboration: Engage with global innovators and experts in real time through our secure virtual platforms.
  • Customizable Hubs: Tailor your virtual hub experience to focus on specific industries, technologies, or geographic regions.
  • Interactive Sessions: Participate in webinars, virtual panels, and live demonstrations, gaining insights from industry leaders and technology pioneers.

Contract Manufacturing Sourcing & Partner Search

Identify, Vet, and Partner with the Right contract development manufacturer (CDMO), Co-Packer, or Toll Manufacturer, Anywhere in the World

yet2‘s Contract Manufacturing Sourcing service identifies, vets, and prioritizes external suppliers across the full contract manufacturing landscape, including CDMOs, toll manufacturers, co-packers, contract research organizations (CROs), and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Drawing on a proprietary database of 13,000+ contract organizations and 25 years of Open Innovation experience, we anonymously gather non-confidential, non-public capability and capacity data so you can make a confident go-forward decision.

 

  • Move beyond the usual suspects with cross-industry contract manufacturing scouting that surfaces qualified, non-obvious contract manufacturing partners.
  • Direct anonymous outreach captures non-confidential, non-public information you cannot find on the public web.
  • Beyond a list of names, yet2 embeds with your procurement, R&D, and external manufacturing teams.

Expert Search

Connect with the Right Expert, Without the Subscription Markup

When your team needs a scientific or technical expert to advise on a specific challenge, the typical platform-based expert network charges high subscription fees, marks up hourly rates, and keeps the expert relationship inside their walled garden.

yet2‘s Expert Searching service flips that model: our scientific team scouts and vets hard-to-find experts on a per-project basis, you own the relationships, and projects are typically delivered at a fraction of the cost of a traditional expert network.

  • yet2‘s scientific consultants have the technical depth to identify and vet experts for complex R&D challenges, drawing on the yet2 Expert Relationship Network (ERN™) and active scouting in adjacent fields.
  • Unlike subscription-based expert platforms, yet2 facilitates a direct, warm introduction between you and the expert with no risk of being cut out or charged ongoing platform fees.
  • No annual subscription, no variable pricing markup, and the option to scope a focused Quick Search or build out a full filterable roster of vetted experts for ongoing use.

Our Full-Cycle Process

From Discovery to Deal

Discovery

Identifying Opportunities

Gain a comprehensive view of potential opportunities and technologies that can drive your business forward.

Lead Generation

Connecting with Innovators

Explore collaborations that enhance your innovation pipeline and address your specific challenges.

Impact

Developing External Partnerships

Establish strategic partnerships and set the stage for successful implementation and impact.

Our Work

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