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PoC Data and Business Intelligence
Monitoring PoC data decreases partnership risks for corporations while providing startups an avenue from solution validation to market achievement. Workinlot supports companies in discovering innovation opportunities and managing their technology st...
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Strategic Startup Partnerships - Proof of Concept Projects
Businesses can drive innovation by embracing measurable risks. All new business models and technological solutions undergo rigorous technical and functionality testing before deployment. In this era of rapidly accelerating innovation cycles, collab...
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Workinlot Service and Impact Recap
Workinlot helps companies identify emerging innovation opportunities and manage technology collaborations. For the past 9 years, we have been offering 4 core services to address organizations' diverse innovation needs: Acceleration programs Opportu...
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Emerging Innovation Economies: Boosting Startup – Corporate Engagement in Turkic Countries
In the global competitive environment of the 21st century, the economic prosperity and sustainable development of countries are tied to their innovation capacity, the ability to produce technology, and commercialize it. The transition from raw mater...
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Emerging Innovation Economies: Boosting Startup – Corporate Engagement in MENA
Strengthening corporate–startup partnerships is essential for advancing technology transfer and enabling more successful exits in the MENA region. This requires developing a methodology harmonizing Silicon Valley best practices with MENA's unique bus...
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Industry Analysis
Open Innovation in Agriculture - Corporations and Startups
In this article, we summarized examples of cooperation in large agricultural companies' focus areas of new products, new customers, and new markets. Companies establish corporate venture capital to invest in new ventures that are risky for corporate...
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Open Innovation in Agriculture Industry - SMEs and Startups
With the help of technology startups, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) also assume critical roles in the development of novel technologies and business models. SMEs have a real motivation to collaborate with startups to address inefficiencies imp...
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Corporations and Startups - Robotics Automation
Most of the robotics automation startups we'll examine in this article offer practical solutions and business models suitable for SME customers. The robotics and automation industry was initially targeting large corporations and the defense industry...
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Innovations in Manufacturing Industry - Collaborations with Startups
The innovations most preferred by the manufacturing industry are projects that increase operational efficiency with low cost and low risk. The objective is to create efficiency, customer satisfaction, and competitive advantage by improving existing...
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3 Corporate Profiles and Innovation Goals
Based on their innovation approach, we classify companies into three profiles. We have listed each profile's expectations, solution suggestions, and reference designs for different goals.
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Open Innovation in Food Retail: Corporations and Startups
Top food retail questions we got in 2024: How can AI be harnessed to optimize services? What strategies can be employed to improve customer engagement in a dynamic market? How can operational efficiency be enhanced to promote sustainability?
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Corporations and Startups - The Future of Apparel and Textile
We explored strategies and success stories for textile and apparel companies aiming to export to developed markets, focusing on how they can turn shifting industry dynamics into opportunities. The textile and apparel sector has traditionally focused...
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A.I. Trainers
Intelligence is a characteristic unique to humans. Artificial intelligence (AI) is the name we give to a new technology that humans have developed and likened to themselves. Humans have created this powerful technology and also have the responsibilit...
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Open Innovation in Logistics: Corporations and Startups
The strategic partnerships forged between logistics industry leaders and startup ecosystems are charting the sector's future trajectory. Pioneering approaches like Maersk's venture clienting methodology and Schenker's push-pull framework serve as bl...
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How Do Companies Build Startups?
With the momentum created by technology, new customer demands and the formation of new markets are accelerating. One way for a company to test new markets and customer base opportunities is to build its startup. Various methods can be used to build...
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Corporate Innovation Dark Data
Just like devices, processes generate data including innovation processes. But can we use this data to illuminate bottlenecks in innovation? This question inspired us in 2020 and we started tracking data in our projects.
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Open Innovation in Healthcare - Corporations and Startups
With longer lifespans, a broader spectrum of services is crucial to cater to the specific needs of each generation. Traditional healthcare, often restricted by accessibility and rising costs, is struggling to adapt. Consequently, many are explori...
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B2B Girişimlerde Değer Doğrulama
Bir startuptan beklenen karşılığında para alabileceği bir ihtiyaç bulmak ve bu ihtiyacı teknoloji tabanlı bir ürünle karşılamak. Tercihen zaman içinde daha çok ve hızlı değer yaratmanın ve karşılığını almanın yolunu bulmak. Herşey müşteri ihtiyaçları...
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Corporations and Startups - The Future of Paper
Paper industry startups are tackling crucial challenges through diverse approaches. Big data analysis, supply chain traceability, exploration of new product uses, innovative business models, and even biotech solutions are all areas of focus. Signifi...
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B2B Startup - Identifying a PoC Corporate Partner
PoC is a learning process for B2B startups. Learnings acquired during the PoC process help validate the customer, problem-solution fit, and market fit. The right customer and market fit also accelerates the startup's access to revenue, customers, an...
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Steel Industry: New Competition and Startup Collaborations
The steel industry represents a massive $1.5 trillion market characterized by labor-intensive processes and high operational costs. New market dynamics, operational inefficiencies, and regulatory pressures like carbon credits and border adjustments...
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B2B Startup Jargon ve Başarı Metrikleri
İnovasyon-yenilik, riskli ve daha önce hiç gidilmemiş bir yolculuk. Startup’ın kaybolmaması, kendini anlayabilmesi ve müşteri-ortaklar-yatırımcılara anlatabilmesi için, ortak ve objektif bir dil konuşması gerekiyor. Ortak dil konuşabilmek için aşağ...
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Fast track to product 1.0 and product market fit via effective PoC projects
PoC projects are what keeps B2B startups at problem solution fit stage busiest. The sole reason is that all the learnings needed to move onto the next stage are originated from PoCs. In this articles ways to best manage PoC projects, using precious t...
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Transforming the Car Experience
Automotive is a locomotive sector for national economies, and every change it undergoes affects other industries as well. Along with the new user culture, the car experience is also transforming. New generations' expectations from cars are: offering...
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Corporations and Startups - Textiles Industry
Substantial need and opportunity are the reasons why startups exist. Naturally, they began to create the new in an old industry. The new sustainability mindset, change in consumer demand, and expectations are other factors driving innovation in the...
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Unlocking B2B Startup Value: A Stage-by-Stage Guide
Startup stages are defined by their maturity in solving problems. For B2B startups. this means testing and learning through customer discovery, proof of concept engagements, product demos and sales. However the order and objective of each differs sig...
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B2B Startup Commercialization Challenges and Tips
Collaboration with enterprise clients is a critical milestone for the commercialization of B2B startups. This collaboration is difficult because enterprises and startups have two very different structures. Enterprises are obliged to offer consolida...
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Beyond the Walls: Corporations and Venture Building
Development is the key to survival, that's why companies have to look outside their walls. By forming the right partnerships, they can uncover a powerful mix of fresh perspectives, agile methodologies, and market-tested ideas. This is the perfect rec...
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Corporations and Startups - Carbon Accounting
Carbon accounting startups offer a range of tools and services to measure, report, and verify companies' carbon footprints and support the development of strategies to reduce emissions and carbon offsets. The global market for carbon accounting soft...
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Corporations and Startups - Corporate Data Security
Data security is a risky area for every organization, and validated startups have proven to be structures best capable of sharing the risk. To validate their value propositions, startups need to work with numerous corporate clients and learn from the...
Details 09/12/2023 Industry Analysis