• Find the breakthrough inventions you've been missing

  • Gain unparalleled global coverage of university innovations

  • Access privileged insights from academics on new inventions

PreScouter finds the inventions you've been missing from over $100 billion of university research performed every year.


Highlighted Inventions





Example Clients and Partners

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How it works

1. Corporations specify their innovation needs

2. Academics find relevant innovations

3. Inventions are translated to corporate needs





Corporations discover breakthrough innovations

Academics gain insight to further their research

Inventors and startups are exposed to corporate partners

 



Benefits

Unique Model

Through PreScouter, corporate innovators partner with academics to find university inventions that meet specific market-driven needs. Our model unlocks the wealth of research conducted at universities.

Deep Expertise

Our network of academics spans over 160 experts in almost every scientific discipline, from regenerative medicine to computer science and energy storage. Our academics reside in premier research institutions, such as Northwestern University in the US, Imperial College in London and IIT Madras in India.

Global Coverage

We provide worldwide visibility into inventions developed at universities. Our coverage ranges from university giants in the US and Europe to emerging innovators in China and India.




Broad Commercial Partners

We have relationships with over 50 corporations seeking to take new inventions to market. Their innovation interests range from new packaging materials to oral hygiene. Through PreScouter, inventors achieve their commercial ambitions.

Single Point of Access

We remove the endless frustration that corporate innovation leaders experience penetrating university fortresses to find inventions that are relevant to them. Conversely, we provide university inventors with direct access to the specific corporate leaders interested in their inventions.

Privileged Information

Our network of academics and relationships with corporations provides us with non-public insights into university research and the tacit market needs of corporations.