Innovation 128 services focus on four main areas:
Technology and strategy watch
■ “Customised” Watch programmes that aim to keep company managers or area managers informed of critical factors of change and development opportunities;
■ TechWatch™ multi-partner technological Watch programmes devoted to key areas that are rapidly evolving or to emerging technologies;
■ Company training using the InfoMaster™ training support to inform and educate teams in good practices of technological and strategic Watch;
■ Audits to assess existing Watch methods and to reveal avenues for progress, recommendations and action plans;
■ Support services to help with the familiarisation of methodological know-how or to promote the Watch method within the company.
Ad-hoc surveys
■ These are ad-hoc missions that may involve:
- a state of the art report of a technique;
- market analysis;
- identification of technical solutions or specific suppliers.
■ These missions include several parts:
- documentary research;
- direct surveys with key actors;
- corresponding analyses and summaries.
Steering the innovation process
■ To help companies and some research centres to better control their innovation process, Innovation 128 intervenes at different levels:
- technological prospective surveys and analysis of trends;
- help in creativity and in generating new ideas;
- search for external opportunities (patents, licenses, R&D projects, partnerships, etc.);
- exploitation of technological innovations or research results.
The dissemination of publications and data bases
■ TechTendances™ surveys: technical state of the art reports providing technical and economic data on emerging technological fields.
■ The Online TechWatch™ Internet Guide: a database regularly updated by the international consultants, experts and correspondents of Innovation 128, which presents, in a selective manner, and characterises essential sites to make professionalise Internet information searches.