Innovation Identification Process
Our process: How we prepare innovators; link them to corporate users; & campaign to reduce adoption barriers
Innovation identification, with help from our corporate user advisors, is the second of the UK Innovation Initiative's three related core activities, which are:
1. Preparing Innovators to Adjust to Corporate Mindsets
Firstly, we aim to help innovators in IT security to up their game, take a reality check, express their innovation in business terms, relate to corporate pain points and submit details in a way that will resonate effectively with corporate user decision makers.
We recognise the sensitivities innovators rightly have in preserving their intellectual property so we are at this stage asking them to divulge in our questionnaire only as much as they prepared to say without invoking a Non Disclosure Agreement.
2. Linking Innovation with Potential Corporate User Champions
This is in two stages
- We link innovators' business oriented submissions to our Advisory Panel and advisors. This preliminary evaluation stage is designed to convert submissions from: "Is this worth looking at further?" to: "this may be worth looking at further".
- Innovators passing this pilot evaluation phase will be invited to give short "elevator pitch" presentations (10-15mins) to a group of senior corporate user decision makers. The aim here is to convert submissions from: "this may be worth looking at" to: "this is worth looking at." We also look here at the potential for clustering innovations. Any deeper engagement is continued independently of the UKII.
3. Campaigning to Reduce Obstacles to Adopting Innovation
Our third core activity is raising a wide debate and campaigning at the corporate and political level to identifying practical ways of making corporate procurement and due diligence processes and policies better able to accommodate innovation from small companies.
