Business Consultants for Tech Innovations
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A comprehensive set of services for start-ups. All the analytical background you need for a successful market entry strategic decision making.
Tech & IP Verified
Substantive Due Diligence in areas that no one understands. We offer specific expertise in assessing complex deep tech projects. Also useful if you need to increase the capacity of your analytics team or want to educate your analysts to navigate complex technologies.
What we do
Valuations
We will quickly and professionally assess the potential of your research/product for practical application. We will provide you with a certified and data-backed result of a careful cost-benefit analysis. You will have in your hands a realistic price corresponding to the market situation.
Tech & IP Due Diligence
We specialize in Due diligence even in areas that others do not understand. We can assess complex deep tech projects and evaluate the technological and business aspects of IP protection. We will provide you with red flags together with specific recommendations.
Market Analysis
We will provide you with a complete overview of the market relevant to you. We will find technology solutions for your innovation or investment - technologies available on the market and also those currently under development. We can even find you a proven partner who can develop the technology for you.
Public Policy Advisory
We cooperate at regional, national and international level with institutions setting innovation policy to create a functional innovation ecosystem.
We pass on our expertise in the form of evaluations, analyses, the development of guidelines and the training of the staff of the cooperating institutions.
IP Optimisation
Intellectual property (IP) from a business perspective.
We optimize the cost of managing and controlling it: so that your business doesn't spend unnecessarily on unconceptual or dysfunctional IP protection and lose out on the benefits of getting it right.
We prepare a detailed process analysis, evaluate the current state of play and present a comprehensive IP strategy document.
Business Validation
Minimize risks before launching a new product to the market or starting costly development.
How do you choose the best option from the many options during development? How not to develop a perfect product that no one will buy?
We provide data-driven analytical answers to these questions.
It’s all about a dialogue
"The meeetings were very empathetic and stimulating at the same time from the very beginning. UNICO provided us with a comprehensive view of IP protection and a quantification of our progress to date in this area. It helped us to organize our priorities and attitudes towards patent protection in the future and optimizing our existing patent portfolio. We will definitely follow up on the project."
Kateřina Kadlecová
CEO, USSPA
"In the search for alternative materials for the production of our core range, we have reached beyond the horizon of our vision. Thanks to UNICO, we were able to find a way out of the impasse and see the issue in a broader context. The collaboration was very insightful and showed us the direction we should take next. If we find ourselves in a similar situation in the future, we will confidently turn to UNICO again and find our way together...
Ladislav Kotoulek
Managing Director, KAYSER
"Working with UNICO has given us a wealth of insight into patents and innovative solutions in Central Europe.
The UNICO team was able to prepare practical and clear outputs relevant for our innovators and innovation managers.
Thanks to the overall overview and the list of specific examples, their output was easy to grasp both for inspiration and for a substantive discussion of the possibility of using individual solutions. This pragmatism is much appreciated."
Kiril Ribarov
Innovation Manager, ŠKODA
"We used Technology & IP Risk Analysis at a time when we were closing a large number of projects at once and faced a lack of capacity in our analytics team. UNICO provided us with in-depth risk analysis in a short time in areas where they have unique expertise, so we greatly appreciated their insight."
Miroslav Beblavý
CEO, CB ESPRI
"Our cooperation with UNICO has been extremely beneficial. The analysis of technology trends provided valuable evidence not only for the comparison of regional actors with global technology trends, but also for the design of innovation education in selected sectors. Overall, we are satisfied with the expertise and professionalism of UNICO's services, which have contributed to accelerating innovation support in the Hradec Kralove region. They provide us with meaningful data and evidence for strategic decision-making, thereby reducing the error rate of our strategic operations."
Radoslav Vejchoda
Business Analyst & RIS3 Developer, CIRI HK
"We cooperated with UNICO on scouting expert teams in the field of biotechnology. UNICO demonstrated that it has a current and deep insight into what is happening in applied science and where investment opportunities may lie. All of this was underpinned by a robust analytical approach based on a set of relevant indicators. UNICO personally introduced us to the selected teams we visited together. Scouting served as a great gateway to projects we might not have come across otherwise, and we will definitely use it again. "
Tomáš Bobela
Project Manager, BPD Partners
"We were pleasantly surprised by the cooperation with the academic sector. UNICO has found a top scientific team for us and is helping us to manage the collaboration - to make it effective and deliver results that we can use in practice. Our colleagues from the CTU bring a new perspective and great ideas to the development of software for the digitalisation of the used car market - we are delighted with their high level of expertise, which will take the project forward."
Jakub Šulta
CEO, Carvago
"After three years of working on a joint development project, I perceive the following typical top 5 characteristics of Unico team members: they track the assigned topics and tasks and really do the work.
A true art of listening comes naturally to them. They have a nose for interesting topics, projects, great collaborators and contacts to interesting, unprofitable companies. Professional negotiation, great balance of agility, respect and assertiveness. And of course, knowledgeable, complete IP procurement.
Tomáš Slavík
CEO, PSP Technologies
"We approached UNICO to prepare a market analysis related to the technology from two research institutes of the CAS. The results of the analysis were used to negotiate a cooperation and licensing agreement with the start-up Preagon Biotech. Thanks to the presented information, we now have an overview of the competition and legislative conditions on the market and we have also confirmed the possibilities of application of our technology. We value the cooperation with UNICO especially for the ability to find relevant source data and work with it analytically."
Martin Smekal
Head of the TTC, CeTTAV
"In order to keep UCED up-to-date with current technology trends, we repeatedly work with UNICO, which knows where to look and how to put the information we find into the business context of our projects. Thanks for the great collaboration."
Václav Skoblík
Division Director, UCED
"Ensuring patent purity was key at the beginning of development, where UNICO played a vital role. The collaboration was very inspiring and it was crucial that despite many challenges and obstacles, we kept pulling together and had the passion to see the project through to the end."
Petra Krumlová
Innovation Manager, Pilsner Urquell
"I am satisfied with UNICO's service. We received the necessary information to make further decisions. I can say that we at ERA have a long experience of cooperation with Czech universities. Therefore, I can imagine that we could have achieved similar results of the university survey by our own efforts. But it would cost time and capacity of our development team. It was much more efficient to invest in cooperation with UNICO. I can recommend working with UNICO experts.
Antonín Heřmánek
Head of Research and Analysis Department, ERA