
- Patent
- Our Patent solutions
- IP Intelligence SoftwareStreamline the journey from innovation to IP with our IP intelligence software, patent search, data analytics, and related services and tools.→ Read moreOur solutionsPowerful patent searching and analysisArtificial intelligence for patent classificationGrant statistics and detailed legal status analysisSmall molecules searching and analysisDNA and amino acid searching and analysisExplore new markets and opportunitiesEasy patent searching and collaborationAnalysis from any scientific sourcesUnlock AI-powered use cases across a range of Questel software.SEP DatabaseNEWStandard Essential Patent Data & AnalyticsLatest resources
- → Smart Patent Research for True IP ProfessionalsThe value of a patent search hinges on two key factors: data quality and the intelli...
- → A Guide to Bio Sequence Patent SearchingBio sequence patent search is a unique type of life-science search requiring special...
- → The World’s Leading 5G SEP Owners – 2025Explore the 2025 rankings of the top 5G SEP owners in our latest report. Learn how g...
- → Smart Patent Research for True IP Professionals
- IP Management SoftwareKeep your assets up to date and aligned with your corporate strategy with our Equinox suite of IP management software, data analytics, and eBilling tools→ Read moreOur solutionsPowerful all-in-one IPMS for corporatesIPMS tailored for large corporates, built on SalesforcePowerful all-in-one IPMS for law firmsIPMS tailored for large Law FirmsCollaborative invention-to-filing workflowLatest resources
- → Equinox Corporate+ – Leveraging Salesforce for Large IP Portfolio OwnersIP management is evolving fast to keep up with a rapidly changing landscape. In this...
- → Transform How You Manage Your IP Portfolio with Equinox IP Management Software By integrating data, services, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, modern...
- → A Goal to Boost Efficiency by 30%: Why Brandstock Chose Equinox Law Firm Driven by its goal to deliver the “best IP service to clients,” leading law firm Bra...
- → Equinox Corporate+ – Leveraging Salesforce for Large IP Portfolio Owners
- Preparation & Prosecution CopilotsOptimize your entire patent process with our range of advanced Preparation & Prosecution Copilots, from patent application drafting to prosecution workflow automation, claims mapping, and office action responses.→ Read moreOur solutionsAll-in-one patent prosecution workflow, data, and collaboration workspace.AI-DraftingNEWIndustry-leading patent drafting software powered by generative AI.Patent Mapping and Claim Analysis with AIPatent Office Action Response Management with AILeverage the power of data to guide your patent prosecution with Prosecution PackLatest resources
- → 5 Challenges for IP Professionals in the Next 5 Years—and How to Overcome ThemArtificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in the IP sector due to its potential to...
- → Pathways to Productivity: What our 2025 Industry Outlook Research Reveals About AI in IPDiscover what our 2025 Industry Outlook Research reveals about AI adoption by the IP...
- → 3 Cutting-Edge Solutions to Support Your R&D and Innovation Strategies Discover how the latest cutting-edge software and AI-elevated processes for research...
- → 5 Challenges for IP Professionals in the Next 5 Years—and How to Overcome Them
- Patent ServicesBenefit from end-to-end support for vital but time-consuming administrative tasks with our complete range of patent support services, including searches, translations, international filings, validations, unitary patent management, recordals, renewals, and more→ Read moreOur solutionsPatentability, Freedom-To-Operate, InvalidityPCT & national phase, Paris Convention, Unitary PatentUnitary Patent and Unified Patent Court servicesSimplified European validation servicesCentralized patent translation servicesFee and renewals managementAssignment and recordal of all IP RightsLatest resources
- → Questel Services Portal - User WebinarAre you making the most of QSP for international filings, European patent support an...
- → What You Need to Know About Maintaining Intellectual Property Records Maintaining intellectual property records can be complicated for in-house legal team...
- → Should You Outsource Intellectual Property Management Services? Whether you manage a small portfolio or multiple large ones, intellectual property m...
- → Questel Services Portal - User Webinar
- Patent Strategy & Administration→ Read more
Control costs, streamline invoices, and safeguard your patent rights efficiently with our patent strategy & administration services and tools
Our solutionsEnd-to-end IP admin, data verification and docketingInvoice review, bundling and paymentFee audits, negotiation, compliance, benchmarks and forecastingLandscaping, benchmarking, valuation and licensingDefensive PublicationBUY ONLINEPublish an invention into the public domainLatest resources- → 4 Good Reasons to Outsource Trademark DocketingTrademark docketing requires time, effort, and resources, placing a strain on many b...
- → Should You Outsource Intellectual Property Management Services? Whether you manage a small portfolio or multiple large ones, intellectual property m...
- → 3 Cutting-Edge Solutions to Support Your R&D and Innovation Strategies Discover how the latest cutting-edge software and AI-elevated processes for research...
- → 4 Good Reasons to Outsource Trademark Docketing
- TrademarkNew
- Our Trademark solutions
- Clearance & Watch PlatformScreen and monitor your brand and trademark rights effectively with our trademark clearance search and trademark monitoring platform→ Read moreOur solutionsScreen trademarks with AI-driven search technologyMarkify Comprehensive SearchBUY ONLINEAI-driven trademark availability softwareBest-in-class trademark results paired with key pharmaceutical sourcesWatch for new, identical and confusingly similar trademarksMonitor marketplaces, social media, and web contentLatest resources
- → From Detection to Defense: A Powerful Duo that Tackles Trademark Proof of Use Could your or your competitors’ rights be vulnerable to revocation based on non-use ...
- → Artificial Intelligence and IP: What’s on the Horizon for AI and Trademarks? Discover what’s on the horizon for artificial intelligence and IP, including powerfu...
- → Crossing the Frontier with AI Trademark Search: Where Algorithms Intersect with Human Expertise From manual analysis to AI trademark search, discover how combining AI algorithms wi...
- → From Detection to Defense: A Powerful Duo that Tackles Trademark Proof of Use
- IP Management SoftwareManage and maintain your trademark, design and domain name rights effectively with our state-of-the-art trademark management software→ Read moreOur solutionsPowerful all-in-one IPMS for corporatesIPMS tailored for large corporates, built on SalesforcePowerful all-in-one IPMS for law firmsIPMS tailored for large law firmsCollaborative worklfow for trademark and design proposalsLatest resources
- → Equinox Corporate+ – Leveraging Salesforce for Large IP Portfolio OwnersIP management is evolving fast to keep up with a rapidly changing landscape. In this...
- → 4 Good Reasons to Outsource Trademark DocketingTrademark docketing requires time, effort, and resources, placing a strain on many b...
- → Transform How You Manage Your IP Portfolio with Equinox IP Management Software By integrating data, services, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, modern...
- → Equinox Corporate+ – Leveraging Salesforce for Large IP Portfolio Owners
- AI Assistants for Trademark ProductivityReview trademark search and watch results, create first drafts of goods and services descriptions, classify evidence of use, and manage office action responses effectively with our AI assistants for trademark productivity.→ Read moreOur solutionsAll-in-one digital trademark workflow automationChat with trademark search or watch results to review findings and assess riskSave time and build consistency and compliance with our AI solutionAnalyze content and draft answers with AIManage trademark evidence of use with AILatest resources
- → 5 Challenges for IP Professionals in the Next 5 Years—and How to Overcome ThemArtificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in the IP sector due to its potential to...
- → From Detection to Defense: A Powerful Duo that Tackles Trademark Proof of Use Could your or your competitors’ rights be vulnerable to revocation based on non-use ...
- → Experience AI Copilots in Action: The All-in-One IP Solution That Supercharges Patent & Trademark ProductivityTo stay innovative when developing new products and processes in a fast paced enviro...
- → 5 Challenges for IP Professionals in the Next 5 Years—and How to Overcome Them
- Trademark, Design & Domain Services→ Read more
Access expert support throughout the complete brand lifecycle with our integrated domain name, design, and trademark solutions
Our solutionsAnalyst-driven searches with on-demand and customizable reportingIP asset monitoring with intelligent pre-selectionCase management and take-down servicesInternational registration process supportTrademark and design renewal servicesEffective management of corporate domain namesAssignment and recordal of all IP rightsEnd-to-end IP admin, data verification, docketingLatest resources- → What You Need to Know About Maintaining Intellectual Property Records Maintaining intellectual property records can be complicated for in-house legal team...
- → Trademark and Brand Protection Hot Topics: a discussion about trends and news from IACC & INTAOur teams attended INTA and IACC, key events in the intellectual property world. The...
- → What is the Ideal Trademark Renewal Timeline? With trademark protection lasting only 10 years, renewing your registration is the o...
- → What You Need to Know About Maintaining Intellectual Property Records
- Innovation
- Our Innovation solutions
- Innovation Management SoftwareMake your innovation management processes faster, efficient and scalable with our end-to-end suite of innosabi innovation management software.→ Read moreOur solutionsBusiness-oriented dashboards for innovatorsStartup deal flow and program managementCollaborative idea and innovation managementCustomers co-creation and communitiesPartners co-innovation and open callsInnovation Project ManagementUnlock AI-powered use cases across a range of Questel software.Latest resources
- → 5 Reasons to Invest in Innovation Management SoftwareTranslating innovative ideas into successful products is becoming increasingly compl...
- → 9 Ways to Build a Successful Innovation Culture To embed innovation fully into their organizations, companies are often told they ne...
- → 3 Cutting-Edge Solutions to Support Your R&D and Innovation Strategies Discover how the latest cutting-edge software and AI-elevated processes for research...
- → 5 Reasons to Invest in Innovation Management Software
- Innovation ServicesSuccessful innovation processes and culture are about more than the right software tools. Our innovation services leverage proven methods and approaches to generate insights, ideas, and solutions.→ Read moreOur solutionsMarket screening, Competitive intelligence and Technology scoutingConnect with partners, improve or localize your innovation processProducts and services namingSeamless user experience to a global audienceEngage with new audience globallyLatest resources
- → 7 Key Questions to Measure Innovation Management Success Innovation is the key to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced business world. H...
- → Software Patent: How Can It Be Done?Even though life without computers is today nearly impossible to imagine, patent-bas...
- → What is Innovation Scouting?Change is a constant. New technologies surface regularly and change existing product...
- → 7 Key Questions to Measure Innovation Management Success
- SolutionsAI
- Solutions
- Artificial Intelligence in IP→ Read more
Discover Questel’s holistic and responsible approach to artificial intelligence
and intellectual property and our vision to inspire the future of IP with AIOur solutionsDiscover how AI is transforming IPIndustry-leading patent drafting software powered by generative AIAI copilots for optimized patent preparation and prosecution workflowsAI copilot for automated patent classificationAI copilot for elevated trademark clearance searchUnlock AI-powered use cases across a range of Questel software.Proof of UseNewCapture Trademark Evidence of Use with AILatest resources- → The Future of IP Departments: Are We Headed Toward a World of Only Chatbots and AI?In this on-demand session, industry leaders from Questel and Better Ipsum discuss ho...
- → Pathways to Productivity: What our 2025 Industry Outlook Research Reveals About AI in IPDiscover what our 2025 Industry Outlook Research reveals about AI adoption by the IP...
- → Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Simplify Your Prosecution WorkUnlock exclusive insights and discover how Qthena, the AI-powered prosecution assist...
- → The Future of IP Departments: Are We Headed Toward a World of Only Chatbots and AI?
- Integrated IP Ecosystem→ Read more
Optimize your intellectual property assets with our comprehensive IP portfolio management solutions,
ensuring maximum protection and strategic advantage for your business.Our solutionsIP management systems, docketing, forecasting, data analytics, blockchain, and eBilling toolsOur web-based platform for IP services managementPAVIS Connect, our solution for companies and laws firms that already have an IP management systemAccess trademark watches directly from Equinox with Markify Watch integrationLatest resources- → Switching to a New IPMS: What Does the Data Migration Process Involve?When you’re considering switching to a new IP management system (IPMS), you’ll likel...
- → When Is the Right Time to Upgrade Your IP Management Software?When you are overloaded by IP administrative tasks and deadlines, switching to a new...
- → The Power of IPMS Technology for IP Lifecycle Management By choosing an end-to-end integrated IP management system (IPMS), you can build effi...
- → Switching to a New IPMS: What Does the Data Migration Process Involve?
- Solutions for Law FirmsStreamline internal processes, satisfy client demand, and remain competitive with our specialist solutions for law firms→ Read moreOur solutionsAll-in-one patent prosecution workflow, data, and collaboration workspace.Patent Office Action Response Management with AIIndustry-leading patent drafting software powered by generative AIPowerful all-in-one IPMS for law firmsPowerful patent searching and analysisScreen and monitor your trademark rights effectively with our Markify platformStreamline multilingual matters with fast and reliable legal translation servicesCentralized patent translation servicesFee and renewals managementTrademark and design renewal servicesLatest resources
- → How Equinox Law Firm Supports Redchip Lawyers to Save Time and Build RelationshipsFor law firms with large, multi-disciplinary practices, an IP management system (IPM...
- → Can Your IPMS Help Build Strong Client Relationships?Cultivating strong client relationships is incredibly important for IP law firms. Yo...
- → Leverage Artificial Intelligence to Simplify Your Prosecution WorkUnlock exclusive insights and discover how Qthena, the AI-powered prosecution assist...
- → How Equinox Law Firm Supports Redchip Lawyers to Save Time and Build Relationships
- Solutions for Life Sciences→ Read more
Intellectual property management tools, services, and insights to support life sciences innovation strategies
Our solutionsDNA and amino acid searching and analysisSmall molecules searching and analysisExplore new markets and opportunitiesBest-in-class trademark results paired with key pharmaceutical sourcesPowerful all-in-one IPMS for corporatesTranslation solutions across the product lifecycle—from patent to post-marketCentralized patent translation servicesFee and renewals managementTrademark and design renewal servicesLSPN North America Awards recognize QuestelLatest resources- → Patent Data Analytics, It’s Not Just for Patent SearchingThere are many reasons why organizations may conduct patent searching exercises and—...
- → Harnessing the Power of Patent AnalyticsPatent analytics can reveal new application areas, diversification opportunities, an...
- → The Technology Landscape of Precision Medicine: An IP AnalysisTechnological developments in gene sequencing, imagery, and data analysis are enabli...
- → Patent Data Analytics, It’s Not Just for Patent Searching
- Solutions for R&D and Innovation→ Read more
Strengthen, structure, and maximize your R&D and innovation strategy, workflows, and internal processes by harnessing the latest tools and technologies, including through smart application of generative AI.
Our solutionsCreate more efficient and scalable innovation management processesCollaborative invention-to-filing workflowCollaborative worklfow for trademark and design proposalsMarket screening, competitive intelligence, and technology scoutingStreamline your research and development workflows with AILatest resources- → 3 Cutting-Edge Solutions to Support Your R&D and Innovation Strategies Discover how the latest cutting-edge software and AI-elevated processes for research...
- → 7 Key Questions to Measure Innovation Management Success Innovation is the key to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced business world. H...
- → AI Patents: What Patent Mapping Can Tell Us About Future AI Technologies Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving all the time thanks to the growing quantiti...
- → 3 Cutting-Edge Solutions to Support Your R&D and Innovation Strategies
- Language Solutions→ Read more
Translation, interpretation and tech-enabled localization services and language solutions that help global organizations open up new markets, overcome regulatory hurdles and connect with audiences worldwide.
Our solutionsStreamline multilingual matters with fast and reliable legal translation servicesTranslation solutions across the product lifecycle—from patent to post-marketManage operations, ensure compliance, and maintain consistent messaging worldwideLatest resources- → Employing A "Winning Strategy" For Your International MattersYear after year, in-house legal teams and outside counsel handling international and...
- → The Role Clinical Trial Translation Plays in Patient Recruitment and RetentionHealth equity is an essential goal in modern healthcare, and one pivotal aspect of a...
- → The difference between a legal interpreter and a legal translatorAttorneys, courts and case law often conflate the need for legal translators or lega...
- → Employing A "Winning Strategy" For Your International Matters
- Contact
- Learn & Support
- Learn and support
- Webinars & EventsAre you interested in attending one of our online or onsite event?
- Product TrainingsCustomer success is our priority. Increase your skills in the use of Questel’s software
- Product NewsA platform dedicated to software and platforms news and evolutions
- Best-in-class Customer ExperienceOur goal is to exceed our clients' expectations and share best practices
- IP TrainingIncrease the IP-IQ of your entire organization with engaging IP training programs
- Newsletter subscriptionSign up for our quarterly patent and trademark newsletters and set your email preferences below.
- Webinars & Events
- Resource HubStay up-to-date with industry best practices with our latest blogs
- Resource Hub
- About Questel
- Learn & Support
- Learn and support
- Webinars & EventsAre you interested in attending one of our online or onsite event?
- Product TrainingsCustomer success is our priority. Increase your skills in the use of Questel’s software
- Product NewsA platform dedicated to software and platforms news and evolutions
- Best-in-class Customer ExperienceOur goal is to exceed our clients' expectations and share best practices
- IP TrainingIncrease the IP-IQ of your entire organization with engaging IP training programs
- Newsletter subscriptionSign up for our quarterly patent and trademark newsletters and set your email preferences below.
- Webinars & Events
- Resource HubStay up-to-date with industry best practices with our latest blogs
- Resource Hub
- About Questel

What is Innovation Scouting?
Change is a constant. New technologies surface regularly and change existing product landscapes and business models. Companies don’t have all knowledge and all technology expertise ready to be used and implemented in products. Leverage ecosystem to fill his expertise gap has become a competitive advantage. Technology scouting and innovation scouting are approaches companies use to navigate today’s fast paced innovative environment and tackle the issue of integrating new know–how into products. In this article we are making the case for technology and innovation scouting.
What is Innovation Scouting?
Innovation scouting is a combination of open innovation and technology scouting. As outside resources are not in control of one’s company, a suitable method has to be used to identify and keep track of these assets.
Technology scouting serves to identify relevant technologies, compile necessary information and channel it back into the company. It can support the acquisition process of relevant technological assets in the process of internalizing the missing pieces and complement the IP portfolio. Relevant changes in the environment can be identified and new opportunities for collaboration, partnerships or licensing can be pursuit.
Open innovation is an innovation strategy that recognises the limits to your own capacity to do research, to invent and develop new products and allows and encourages ideas, technologies and innovations to transcend company boundaries, thus increasing speed of access to relevant information. Many resources – both internal and external – are considered in this approach to drive innovative activity.
Innovation scouting broadens the scope of technology scouting to extend beyond technology centric point of view. Ideas, marketing trends and know-how sourcing can also be considered valid targets and results. By not only looking at technological assets, but ideas, people and networks it serves and supports shifts in core business and provide impulses to business units. In short, innovation scouting is the extension of technology scouting to fit in the open innovation strategy.
Why engage in innovation scouting?
A company’s internal innovative capacity leverages the status quo. Engineers rely on existing and known technologies and associated know-how. However, if you rely on the status quo you are bound to miss disruptive shifts and developments. For this reason you need to be vigilant and observe developments, trends, ideas and innovations outside your company and industry. You cannot have the same business forever.
Push and pull factors to improve scouting processes
Many aspects can drive you to implement or improve existing innovation scouting processes:
Globalization forces us to watch and monitor trends and developments at a global level. An integrated approach to aggregate relevant information and screen it is mandatory to understand trends and emerging technologies globally.
The diffusion of new technologies from one product segment into another can upend existing power balances and catch unprepared companies by surprise. Recently German car manufacturers have noticed they have to build up IT and software competencies to compete with Tesla.
The increasing speed of innovation and thus shortening of product lifecycles can erode competitive advantages quickly.
R&D departments have to face these challenges and take on more and more responsibilities while defending budgets. Building up internal resources to embrace opportunities presented by new ideas and technologies puts additional stress on capacities and cannibalizes core R&D activity.
On the other hand management can take advantage of the innovation ecosystem if embedded correctly:
By staying on top of developments and keeping tabs on potentially disruptive technologies companies can increase resilience and innovate its product portfolio.
Understanding and using the innovation ecosystem improves alignment of services, products and business models to market needs. Regularly identifying changes, assessing their relevance and impact enables good innovation management and increased value delivery to customers.
Proper understanding of trends, technologies and fast access to linked know-how expedites product and service development and reduces your time to market.
Existing edges on your competition are preliminary. Being great at innovation scouting however, can be a reliable competitive advantage. If you have your organization fine-tuned to develop products with a great market fit by leveraging your ecosystem to find and allow ideas, concepts to crosspollinate into your products and services, you set your company up for success.
How to engage in innovation scouting?
Looking at the scope of innovation scouting you have a multitude of different aspects to connect and integrate into your innovation workflows. Therefore, the first question should be, do you want this task done by internal employees or external consultants. Both options have upsides and downsides.
Internalizing offers complete control and keeps know-how strictly inside the company. However, if people are rarely tasked with scouting activities they cannot become efficient and cannot create the necessary network to utilize on consecutive studies. Technology and innovation scouts have to be proficient networkers, result-oriented and follow a structured approach.
Externalizing allows you to task specialized consultancies and scouts with expertise in the field of interest who can leverage their pre-existing network to deliver results. Externals can provide an unbiased, neutral perspective which can provide vital impulses to your innovation activity.
Regardless of internalizing or externalizing: Anybody involved in scouting activities is confronted with a sea of information, many options in following innovation leads and will need a structured approach to navigate this area as well as suitable software tools to combat information overload. Which data sources are relevant and should be analysed? How to analyse data from different sources? What are the interesting technologies and solutions for your topic of interest? Who are active players, academics or start-ups or key opinion leaders in any emerging technology? Where is the R&D being done? What are most prevalent technical concepts? These are just a couple of questions that need answering in the face of fractured and most likely incomplete information.
Aggregating, cleaning up of data from different sources takes time and effort. Time and effort better spent on analysing and decision-making. Do your employees or external consultancies have proper software tools to reduce time spent on mundane and repetitive tasks? Are they able to focus on the big picture and deriving value-adding conclusions and recommendations?
At Questel we leveraged the expertise of inhouse IP and innovation experts and created a sophisticated scouting tool, called innosabi Insight. Innosabi Insight provides a comprehensive overview of a specific topic by screening and analyzing global R&D activities including IP, scientific and business data on a global scale to provide you with the most recent and relevant insights. It allows you to see what is being done externally on your topic of interest in terms of data, players and market dynamics. Structured dashboards made up of graphs, trends, collaborative networks, metrics and profiles of organizations such as companies or universities enable fast analysis and speed up extraction of key information and insights for your scouting activities!
Innovation scouting process
Innovation scouting can be separated into multiple phases. Overall the phases are consecutive. It can be necessary to run phases multiple times considering new information. Every phase can consist of multiple steps or modules. As a service the innovation scouting process is flexible and not set in stone. Not all steps are necessary: It depends on the topic, your prerequisites, your know-how and your network. But every step that is necessary has to be handled carefully to deliver quality results. The process is detailed in the figure below.
Innovation scouting process
A variety of methods and tools can be incorporated to sufficiently satisfy the requirements of your scouting project. As discussed it is possible to internalize the whole project. In case your employees lack experience and know-how, e.g. with regards to patent searching, or outside unbiased impulses to your innovation activity might be desirable, you might consider outsourcing specific parts or the whole project to specialized external consultancies. In the last case the proper specification and listing of your requirements and expected, actionable outcomes have to be clarified and communicated.
Below is a shortlist of studies that can be incorporated into scouting missions and can inspire your project.
Innovation scouting process
Competitive intelligence
Start-ups sourcing
Leverage technical information in order to anticipate the market and pinpoint weak signals, market shift and emerging solutions. We identify relevant mega and micro trends, interpret them and reveal their potential. Stay on the cutting edge!
Monitor the development of market players working on similar projects or entering your competitive space. We compare strategies, grade companies and rank your organization to reveal ways to make improvements.
Obtain the profile of the latest start-ups in your domain to be the first to seize opportunities. We provide a 360° analysis of a start-up to help you understand who is the funder, how are the intellectual property risks managed, what is their business model and what part of their technology is disruptive. The perfect tool for every venture capitalists and investors.
Technology and competency mapping
Technology and partners scouting
Ideation and white space analysis
Develop a comprehensive, state-of-the-art technological analysis for a pre-defined field of innovation. The mapping project will help the client understand the latest trends and position their project/company correctly. Cross-analysis of patent and NPL data as well as web info and expert interviews.
Identify technologies, patents, companies worthy of acquisition, R&D partners and experts to accelerate development phases and enable companies to position and secure access to new markets.
Generate and secure new ideas for technological applications by leading challenges and using design or problem-solving theories. Our innovation consultancy helps clients find and define new R&D directions.
Innovation scouting enlarges the scope of technology scouting beyond internal to external resources which is part of an open innovation strategy. It considers not only technologies but includes ideas, networks and partners in an innovation ecosystem. It can foster collaboration among companies, competitors, start-ups or researchers.
If innovative activity relies on internal know-how you are bound to miss disruptive shifts in your ecosystem. To preserve your business it is necessary to observe developments, trends, ideas and innovations outside your business and technological sector. Innovation scouting is a great method bridge the divide.
Scouting can be done internally or outsourced. Employees need support with specialized software tools allowing them to be effective and efficient. Externalizing can offer unbiased and objective opinions which can provide refreshing impulses to your innovation activity. The innovation scouting process needs to be adapted and tailored to your informational requirements and objectives.
Questel’s mission is to facilitate the development of innovation in an efficient, secure and sustainable way. As a one-stop-shop for IP and innovation needs we can support both with state-of-the-art software tools and consulting expertise:
Innosabi Insight provides a comprehensive overview of a specific topic by screening and analyzing global R&D activities including IP, scientific and business data on a global scale. It allows fast analysis and enables your employees to focus on key information and to create most value for your scouting activity.
Questel has the expertise in innovation and a dedicated team of expert consultants with a global presence. Our consultants are able to cover all technological and scientific domains and all geographies. Our offering includesinnovation scouting projects that will retrieve new ideas, concepts, technologies and innovations adding value to your mission.