Innovation

Public funding programs give automotive companies extra budget to share the cost of technology bets that are too risky to fund alone. EU programs cover 70% to 100% of a company’s eligible costs. For 2027, we used Prism to find 12 programs open to automotive companies, with €286M in EU calls alone. Batteries, materials and […]

Gigacasting is manufacturing by subtraction. When Tesla brought its first Idra Giga Press online at Fremont in 2020, the machine closed its die with roughly 5,600 to 6,200 tonnes of force and turned Model Y underbody assemblies of up to 70 stamped and welded parts into two or three castings. Every part that disappeared took its

For enterprise R&D teams, the best technology scouting tool is the one that gets scouted technologies into portfolio decisions. ITONICS scores highest at 4.7 out of 5 and links scouting to projects, roadmaps, and stage gates. Traction Technology and Cypris follow at 4.0, Traction for startup pilots and Cypris for AI research agents. Patsnap scores

For a decade, carbon capture has been narrated as a chemistry race. Whoever finds the sorbent that grabs CO₂ from thin air at the lowest energy cost wins. Climeworks, Heirloom, and Carbon Engineering dominate the sector’s news cycle. The patent filings since 2024 tell a different story: the carbon capture industry is increasingly being built

Patent offices processed more than 3.55 million applications in 2023, according to WIPO. A 2026 McKinsey survey of more than 1,250 executives found that close to two-thirds of organizations sometimes or often miss a growth opportunity because a competitor moved first, even when their own company was better positioned to win it.

Technological innovation is the innovation investment strategy that promises the highest and longest returns. The risk and uncertainty embedded in technological development act as a filter to crowd out competition and create unique market positions. At the same time, the absence of a clear strategy bears the highest risk of wasting resources.

Innovation management software implementation runs into one obstacle more than any other: it asks department heads to expose work and budget they have controlled solely for years.

Most large enterprises run 50 to 300 concurrent initiatives. Decisions about which to fund, reprioritize, or stop rely on outdated PowerPoint reports and fragmented data from 5 to 10 disparate tools.

Lab equipment sits idle while three projects compete for the same test bench. Skilled technicians are double-booked across overlapping development cycles. And project managers only discover the problem when a deadline slips.

Sales numbers from last quarter were disappointing. Everyone waits for the momentum shift. The new product roadmap. When it arrives, more questions surface than confidence. Which of those initiatives will convince new customers?