New Webinar: AI-Powered Innovation – Practical Examples & Best Practices
Q–scout
Innovation Technology Scouting Software
Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving startups and technology partners.
Why Technology Scouting Software?
Unearth AmazingOpportunities
Discover the most relevant startups and technologies with AI-enriched semantic search tools
EngageDecision Makers
Engage online with internal and external stakeholders to share and develop ideas
Master YourPipeline
Prioritize and evaluate your scouting opportunities against predefined KPIs
Manage YourScouting Portfolio
Easily track, optimize and share your strategic innovation & technology scouting efforts performance
How Does it Work?
Scout
Engage
Evaluate
Commercialize
Scout
01 / 04
Scout
Scout with AI-Powered search and open innovation challenges to find the most relevant opportunities in your field.
- AI-enriched semantic-search and filtering tools help you to analyze data from over 500K global companies, including detailed firmographics, product news, and financial information ✨
- Get daily automated updates for any record you manage to make sure all available data is used throughout the scouting process
- Easily create audience segments and engaging landing pages for open innovation challenges and hackathons
Engage
02 / 04
Engage
Invite internal and external stakeholders to collaborate and engage around selected opportunities.
- Build and track your relationships with start-ups and solution providers and manage your deal flow process
- Engage key stakeholders to share qualitative feedback around opportunities through our private discussion features
- Share your newly opportunities with relevant audiences through engaging communication features like newsletters, platform notifications and more
Evaluate
03 / 04
Evaluate
Map and prioritize opportunities that have the highest potential to impact your business.
- Invite domain experts provide invaluable insights through pre-configured scorecard evaluation and token voting
- Leverage powerful sonar visualization to gain a clear strategic perspective of the most impactful opportunities in your deal-flow
- Manage the entire evaluation lifecycle of your innovation opportunities using your own processes and stage gates
- Use intelligent AI clustering to intuitively evaluate solutions by theme and concept grouping to zero-in on the opportunities that have the best chance to impact your business ✨
Commercialize
04 / 04
Commercialize
Manage the transition of your matured scouting opportunities into innovations that impact your business.
- Create and track tasks to build a proof of concept for your innovations, including experiments, prototyping, and more
- Use the interactive Kanban board to easily manage the progression of your innovations through the innovation funnel
- Use powerful analytics and reporting tools to measure and share your innovation ROI different stakeholders
AI-Powered Innovation
at Warp Speed
Discover how our intelligent AI features and smart automations can help you take your innovation program ‘where no man has gone before.’ With features including:
- AI-Writing Assistant
- Image Generation
- AI Evaluation Fields
- Auto-Risk Assessment
- Intelligent Clustering
And much more…
Scouting Features At Your Fingertips
Intelligent Startup Database
Use semantic search to easily find the most relevant startups in our rich global startup DB
Open Innovation Challenges
Create visual landing pages to promote innovation challenge to allow startups to find you and submit their solutions
Crowdsource Startups Internally
Use configurable submission forms or simple Excel imports to easily update your deal flow with new opportunities
Prioritize yourNeeds
Collect, share and prioritize needs across all business units to ensure you focus on the right topics
Deal Flow Management
Create a collaborative & structured deal-flow process that you can control to a precise degree
Expert Reviews & Scorecards
Manage all technical assessments in one-place, and collect structured feedback from your stakeholders and leadership
Dashboards & Reports
Track your progress and the most important KPIs for your startup scouting program
Scouting Sonar
Pinpoint the best opportunities with our dynamic visualization tool
Powerful Role Management
Create and assign custom roles with responsibilities and settings to suit your process
Successful, Together
With Qmarkets you are never alone. Your very own Customer Success Expert is always there to share best practices, offer friendly advice, and help you take full advantage of the platform. As part of every project, we help map out your requirements against our features, before tailoring the platform and workflow to your unique needs.
Essential Innovation Scouting Software Integrations
Essential Innovation Scouting Software Integrations
Wellspring
Wellspring allows you to scan millions of data points and sources, covering startups, patents, SEC filings, academic research, grants, and proprietary information to maintain holistic profiles of innovative companies, startups, technologies, and experts.
Crunchbase
Crunchbase auto-populates your startups records with information directly from their extensive database of over a million businesses across the globe. With Q-scout you can easily research and import all the relevant data you might need to create a growing innovation scouting portfolio.
What is Innovation Technology Scouting?
Delivering innovations in-house is a real challenge for every business. Innovation scouting exists to help business overcome the various barriers to innovation, such as a prolonged time-to-market, a lack of resources or expertise, and high levels of risk. To find out more about how the innovation scouting process empowers organizations to work with external partners to drive their innovations forward, visit our full guide to the topic.
Your Own Innovation Ecosystem
Unlock your organization’s full potential with software that powers all of your innovation management activities. Gather and manage trends, technologies, ideas and more, and develop them into a portfolio of innovations that deliver real ROI for your business. Start small and scale up if, how, and when you choose.
Trend Management
Trend Management
Keep your place at the cutting edge. Build a collaborative trend knowledge base to pinpoint the innovations that can have an exponential impact on your company bottom-line.
Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting
Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving start-ups, experts, academia, partners, and more.
Idea Management
Idea Management
Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, evaluate, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement
Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.
Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management
Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.
Trend Management
Trend Management
Keep your place at the cutting edge. Build a collaborative trend knowledge base to pinpoint the innovations that can have an exponential impact on your company bottom-line.
Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting
Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving start-ups, experts, academia, partners, and more.
Idea Management
Idea Management
Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, evaluate, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement
Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.
Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management
Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.
Start Your Technology
Scouting Journey Today
Get in touch with our team of innovation experts to see how we can help unlock your innovation potential.