Research Foresight

Planning R&D activities is not just a matter of recognising shortfalls today and implementing research projects to attempt to fill them. Given the timelines associated with R&D activities there is a need to anticipate need, new technologies and new opportunities to ensure that IP is secured ahead of time.

Not only that, but technologies have different uptake rates and generational times. Picking the winners, the technologies which will last is a matter of research foresight.

Our Approach

We take a staged approach to first understanding the essential aspects of your needs, the inherent issues and needs, and the expected short to medium term developments. Against this backdrop we research what is physically realisable, work ongoing to address similar issues in other fields, and the roadmap of technology developments expected by experts in the field.

This work generates a list of potentially fertile areas for R&D action which are checked against know patents and IP to identify other players in the field.

From this work we report to you viable research avenues to explore, and the potential for competitive threats in the field. We also outline the strategy which can be taken, ROM effort required and likely value accrued.

Benefits

Research Foresight provides you with strategic understanding of the technology landscape ahead of you and how you can position yourself to take best advantage of it. The aim is to ensure you can benefit from technology advances to the maximum extent, whilst avoiding abortive launched concept and technologies which do not achieve market acceptance.

Above all, Research Foresight allows you to create planned Research Directions to achieve your aims.

Please contact us if you have other questions or specific needs.