innovation-consulting
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Anurag Bhalla and the art of travelling light
A burger near Waterloo helped persuade Anurag Bhalla to leave a paid career for Outsized. A decade of building the business has given him plenty to say about trust, talent and the things worth carrying.
Hello Tomorrow makes science worth a meeting
A laboratory breakthrough needs someone willing to buy, fund or build it. Hello Tomorrow has made a business of getting those people into the same room.
innovosource and the missing middle of invention
A discovery can win a grant and still lose its way to market. Innovosource works with the university funds, accelerators, and partners trying to finance that awkward interval.
CELA made networking a contact sport
Four mentors. Twelve minutes apiece. CELA put a clock on the warm introduction - then joined forces with WEVE to take its accelerator methods across borders.
SecondMuse builds the missing middle of innovation
A prototype can work perfectly and still go nowhere. SecondMuse helps build the relationships, manufacturing routes and financing that give useful ideas a market.
VentureFuel wants your next big idea to come with a customer
From enterprise AI to cottage cheese, VentureFuel connects established organizations with startups that can solve a specific problem. Its most interesting move is making the buyer part of the experiment from the beginning.
Baltic Innovation Agency makes good ideas easier to fund
A Tartu consultancy works in the awkward space between invention and adoption. Its tools include European funding proposals, municipal pilots and an unusually candid account of what accelerators need to get right.
Start2 Group turns foreign markets into first customers
A Singapore materials startup needed a European customer. Start2 Group helped turn the introduction into a pilot, and the pilot into a contract. Its business is making that awkward middle happen.
Liga Ventures and the art of getting past the handshake
A startup introduction is easy. Liga Ventures has built a business around the harder part: helping large companies turn that introduction into something customers can actually use.
HugeTECH and the art of getting an idea out of its own way
In Rzeszów, HugeTECH turns startup support into a sequence of practical tests: build the prototype, find the partner, survive the paperwork. Its public programs reveal both the usefulness and the friction of that approach.
Julie Mackenzie’s Other Office Has 27 Sheep
The Minneapolis strategist built a career helping organizations navigate change. Her clearest lessons in continuity, stewardship and scale may have come from an old apple tree, a restored farm and a flock of Rambouillet sheep.
Future Transformation Wants to Turn the Innovation Workshop Into Working Infrastructure
The Indian consultancy sits in the awkward gap between talking about emerging technology and putting it to work - then fills that gap with training, advisory, ecosystem programs and a growing product stack.
The Invention Is in a Federal Lab. FedTech Finds the Founder.
FedTech builds businesses around publicly funded research without taking founder equity. Its real product is the difficult work between a promising patent and a customer willing to pay.
Plexal’s next race: turning startup introductions into contracts
Born on London’s Olympic campus, Plexal grew from workspace into a partner for government technology programmes. Its next test is helping the companies it supports win customers who keep buying.
Barrabés.biz took the mountain shop to the boardroom
A family retailer’s experiments with online community became a consultancy for companies, startups and cities. Its record shows what turning an innovation strategy into daily work actually involves - and why the corporate story changed in 2026.
SOSA puts a price on the right introduction
New Jersey awarded SOSA $2.352 million to help international companies find their footing. From cement investments to public-safety pilots, its business is getting promising technology past the first meeting.
Femto designs for the person who has to make it work
A classroom game, a payment terminal and a mining cost program have more in common than they seem. The Brazilian consultancy works on the decisions and processes that make an idea usable.
BIC Plzeň puts a business plan to work
In a Czech industrial city, BIC Plzeň connects founders with grant money, research labs and people who know how to sell. Its most revealing work happens between the bright idea and the first useful test.
RocketSpace housed the unicorns. Then it closed its doors.
Uber and Spotify passed through RocketSpace. Its bet on connecting startups with big companies produced a distinctive business - until global expansion brought a different kind of risk.
CcHUB Is Building the Parts a Startup Cannot Download
The Lagos-born innovation company has spent years assembling the people, capital and institutional connections behind African tech ventures. Its most useful lesson: a promising app still needs somewhere to go.
yet2
yet2 is an open innovation and technology scouting firm that helps large corporations find external technologies, partners, and ideas to accelerate their R&D pipelines. Since 1999 it has run an online technology marketplace and a hands-on consulting practice that scouts, vets, negotiates, and closes technology deals across industries from chemicals and consumer health to aerospace and electronics. With offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, yet2 connects its corporate clients to a global network of innovators and a database of millions of technologies and unmet needs.
Tim Bernstein
Tim Bernstein is the CEO of yet2, an open innovation and technology scouting firm founded in 1999 with backing from DuPont, Procter & Gamble, Honeywell and Siemens. He joined the company in 2001, rose from operator to chief executive, and now spends his days matching corporate R&D needs with technologies and partners pulled from a database of more than five million solution providers. A Yale economist with a Stanford MBA and a Harvard Kennedy School policy degree, he turned an academic thesis on university licensing into a career spent brokering deals others could not find.