Connecting people with proven technologies to solve business issues, create new products and improve processes.

In today’s environment of shrinking innovation cycles, retaining your competitive edge is a challenge. It often means identifying and acquiring technologies from outside your company.

IMC is proud to offer TechScouting™. As part of a statewide and national system, we can connect you to the national research labs and technology experts around the county. Your next high impact technology may be at a university, national research lab or in a business in the U.S. or around the world. We have the expansive network and market knowledge to help you find it.

TechScouting™ supports you in every aspect of the technology scouting process, from developing an in-depth technology needs assessments, to identifying entities involved in researching or developing technologies in specific technical areas. Extensive technical, commercialization and management experience uniquely positions us to support your technology scouting needs. IMC has resources that are skilled at identifying promising early-stage technologies that create new business or market opportunities.

TechScouting™ Services
Technology Scouting Methodology uses proven processes and tools to provide:
• Access to innovators and/or technologies in strategic areas of interest
• Discovery of relevant technologies residing in universities, public and private research labs, start-ups, small-to-medium businesses or large enterprises
• Fit and Qualification of the initial technology and its relevance to your needs

TechScouting™ Is:
• An established technology scouting service that uses proven processes for evaluating technical innovations from many sources and quickly assesses relevance to your needs.
• An independent, open innovation partner that works closely and actively to help you understand technology landscapes and find the innovations that fills your need.
• An innovation specialist with expertise in partnership formation, business development, finance, management, technology assessment and commercialization.
• Access to multidisciplinary experts that understand the science behind new technologies in numerous fields and the business factors that impact product innovation in a wide variety of markets.

TechScouting™ Is Not:
• A passive Internet technology broker that finds technologies based solely on search terms or limited criteria.
• A reverse engineering group, nor do we participate in IP litigation efforts.

What Makes TechScouting™ Unique?
TechScouting™ is a combination of commercialization expertise, research excellence and proven processes for road-mapping, technology scouting and partnership development that have been applied and refined for your benefit.

Testimonial:
“The Technology Scouting project identified several options for us that will eliminate a very costly slow down to our production process, wasted materials and safety issues. We are pleased with the anticipated savings that will result from the changes we will make on our four machines and how it will improve our production throughput and resolve safety issues for our workers.”