Prioritizing

R&D priorities must be chosen carefully, along with an in-depth review of the company’s strategy:
• expected developments in the market’s needs – explicit and implicit –
• expected shifts in competition
• relative strengths and weaknesses – technological, industrial, commercial –
• human and financial resources

R&D organization

Any future-conscious company has its own concern with Research & Development, but not necessarily its own specific R&D unit. R&D can be addressed in several ways, for instance through information-sharing and -centralizing.

Here the critical issues are:

• to value and organize internally the people, teams and actions that impact the company’s R&D in a positive way
• to support and reinforce them with the relevant competences
• to cost-effectively manage the whole.

Which part(s) of R&D should be kept within the company?

Quite a strategic border! For each project, drawing that line must take into account:
• the project’s more or less specific nature
• time horizons
• available resources
  • internally
  • at technical centers
  • at academic laboratories.

We help you to assess those criteria’s respective weight and to choose the right balance.

Finding the « right » specialists…

Using our extensive academic network, we search for specialists in the relevant scientific discipline.

We assist you in selecting them, taking into account:
• their academic skills in the discipline
• their readiness to deal with demanding time and result constraints
• their ability to maintain a good level of dialogue with an industrial partner

… and the « best » industrial partners

with a view to:
• mutualize resources
• develop and exchange each party’s skills
• reinforce the company’s network