Tech Scouting

Take advantage of Innovation Centre Denmark’s global advisory network and local experts for finding the right technology solutions for your organisation.

In the race to innovate, DAX companies are moving away from accelerators to Corporate Venture Capital (CVCs) and Startup Partnering. Startup collaboration involving pilots and proof-of-concept projects have become increasingly important. Innovation managers are receiving direct challenges from the internal business units. This demand for tech innovation is fulfilled by internal and external technology scouts who reach out in their networks looking for solutions. Finding the perfect hand-picked technology solution is a resource-intensive task. Moreover, finding the right regional hidden champions often requires a deeper on-ground network. While Munich is emerging as the startup collaboration and corporate venture client hub, Berlin is maintaining its ground in the field of classic venture capital investments.

THE SERVICE

Southern Germany, one of Europe’s strongest technology regions, has a thriving and transforming innovation ecosystem with global players like BMW, Siemens, Audi, and entrepreneurial talents from the world’s leading technical universities. The Innovation Centre Denmark in Munich with its strategic presence can tap into this unique regional ecosystem, leverage the innovation ecosystem in Denmark to help your organisation find the right technology solutions.

Our Tech Scouting service involves matchmaking activities and is driven by the tech innovation needs within corporates in Germany and Denmark. As a part of the service, we help our German Corporate and investment partners find technology solutions from Denmark. Reciprocally, we match the Danish corporate counterparts looking for solutions with the technologies from Germany.

ICDK’s location in innovation hotspots like Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, Seoul, and Shanghai enables us in Munich to tap into a huge innovation and expert network to find the right solutions. The tech advisory team in Munich adds on a unique knowledge of the local innovation ecosystem in Germany. Our unique positioning as a neutral party without vested interests enables us to get access to decision-makers within companies and research institutions. Moreover, our diplomatic positioning enables us to forge trustworthiness in the partnerships we build in the region.

NEUTRAL & TRUSTWORTHY

DATA-DRIVEN

LOCAL EXPERTISE

GLOBAL NETWORK

The Process

IDENTIFYING YOUR PROBLEM

We engage with your organisation to first and foremost understand your needs. By identifying and working with the right stakeholders within your organisation, we will gauge the problem you are trying to solve in the value chain to find the right technologies.

CO-DEVELOPING SCOUTING STRATEGY

Based on our findings and ideas from discussion with you, we assess the market together and formulate a scouting strategy to search, filter and shortlist technologies. This will ensure that we deliver your satisfaction with best fitting technologies and outcomes.

LEVERAGING OUR NETWORK

Based on the scouting strategy, we leverage our partnership and extended network and crunch the data we collect. As we deep-dive into our findings, we combine databases with human intelligence to make sense of the data and to identify the best fit to your needs.

DELIVERING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

We compile our findings into actionable insights for you. Based on the specific case and your needs, we will either set up 1:1 meetings with relevant parties or organise a tech scouting event involving showcase of technologies.