Technological innovation is essential to a company’s lasting success. Nonetheless, R&D can be a lengthy process, and it demands substantial capital investments.
An innovation, like a technology, a material or processes you want to implement is eventually already existing or even in use in another industry or sector. Often these innovations are also in development by brilliant scientists from universities, institutes and start-up companies. The challenge is – How to identify them?
We at PK-Techventures identify substantial scientific and engineering advances that fit your company and your innovation/strategy project.
Our purpose is to fast-forward your R&D process and streamline your innovation projects. We help find the innovation of any kind for your project.
YOUR BENEFIT.
Identify your innovation potential
Identify worldwide available technologies, unique materials, new procedures and target markets or even new applications based on your capabilities to support your defined strategic projects where innovation may play a substantial role for success!
Make wise decisions
Prepare different technology options to choose from to solve your challenge. Provide you with the business intelligence about new markets & opportunities based on your expertise, skills and existing IP to support your strategic decision making
Increase competitiveness
Strengthen your competitive position through access to new innovative technologies, markets, methods and processes to increase your level of competitive efficiency and effectiveness!
“Innovation doesn’t mean success is guaranteed, but you’ll definitely fail without it.”
Karl Pfister-Kraxner, Founder PK TECH VENTURES
Project Examples . excerpt
Pioneering innovation for the textile industry
Studies show that around 400,000 tons of textile waste are accumulated in Germany alone per year. To date, only a fraction of this figure is recycled because high-quality recycling of clothes was recently considered virtually impossible from a technical standpoint because more than 90% of textiles are made of different and mixed fibres. Thanks to its sophisticated in-house tool, PK-Techventures was, however, able to identify several promising technologies and methodologies.. These processes separate the blend of cotton and polyester, previously considered a no-go in terms of recycling, and then makes them recyclable as separate raw materials again.
What is it about?
We identified several type of methods to substatially reduce some toxid substances from more than 40 million litres of industral wastewater. The KPI to measure is called COD ( Chemical Oxygen Demand). Based on the findings and the technology clustering by our client decided on which technologies to be most feasible to have potential to reduce Lignin or long-chain organic compounds or lignosulfonates in their wastewater.
Case description
A client from an industrial business is operating several businesses while the size of each businesses havent been much in balance. The clients stratgy was to expand the the business areas not through organic grwoth but through an acquisition on an suitable company with a reasonable marketposition. Describing the M&A tagret candidate the same way like we do it for a technology gives us the profile, description and the requirements such a company need to provide.
Case description
It is a clear trend currently to replace used materials with more sustainable materials with biogradeability or an higher grade of recycling options. Our approach on this is divided into materials available already in several niches of startups or established businesses. More often we identify solution in this field in one of the hundreds of universities and institution we are screening for our projects.
What is it about?
Identification of potential JV or M&A candidates in the Nucleotide Extraction Kits & Reagents market.
Motivation of The Client
– Use the existing market access to cover the largest possible share of the $ 3 billion market
– Establish yourself as an end-to-end supplier in the nucleotide extraction market
– Exponential sales growth
The search focused on companies with a defined turnover that can offer the know-how on the one hand and kits and reagents ready for the market on the other.
In addition, we identified expired patents that can be commercialized through a collaboration or acquisition.
In order to show a longer-term perspective, we tracked new developments and approaches that promise medium-term development potential.