An initiative to bridge from key areas of opportunity, need and exposure in the US innovation eco-system to realize high-impact & high-value innovation outcomes advancing US technological competitiveness – creating asymmetric innovation advantage at the firm-level, for the macro-economy and in service of national security.

In service of that goal, we've launched Innovation-AlphaTM. A novel innovation eco-system approach, Innovation-AlphaTM designs actionable, advantaged strategies for achieving predictable competitive edge in both creating high-impact innovation outcomes and capturing high-value returns from their monetization. The competitive edge in those strategies arises from a unique multi-dimensional analysis of the key drivers in an innovation eco-system – and their complex interplay over time as the innovation, market and competition evolve.

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More specifically, Innovation-AlphaTM achieves that competitive edge through a unique set of complementary capabilities, most powerful working in unison, but also effectively employed "a la carte" depending upon the objective at hand:

• Innovation Eco-System Understanding: Comprehending all the interconnected and interdependent domains where innovation and IP value is created, captured… or lost. Integrating domains like technology, markets, and policy as well as bridging across corporate, industry, and geographic boundaries. A contextual landscape of the targeted innovation eco-system(s) – The Map.
• Opportunity DiscoveryTM: Identification and design of optimal innovation outcomes – Choosing The Destination(s).
• Innovation Offset StrategyTM: Strategies for achieving and maintaining asymmetric competitive advantage through the creation, acquisition, or divestiture innovation and IP assets (where "assets" includes corporate entities, divisions, product-lines, technologies and/or IP positions) – Charting The Course.
• Innovation ArbitrageTM: Optimizing The Liquidity Event: Strategic deal positioning and novel business model design to bridge across technology, industry, corporate, and national boundaries to identify and realize the optimal value-capture opportunity – Arrival.

With a concious emphasis on:

• Impact-Imperative & Outcome-Focus: Focusing from that broad eco-system understanding to realizing specific high-impact, high-value outcomes that enhance innovation competitiveness: which necessarily includes both value-creation and value-capture.
• Agile & Actionable: Helping the private sector, academia and government develop agile, adaptive strategies and actionable solutions for real-world impact from innovation and IP assets.

Keenly focused on creating actionable, enabling strategies that lead all the way from ideation to commercialization, rather than on just single point-solutions within a longer chain of events. Innovation-AlphaTM homes in from a broad vision of the US (or target national) innovation eco-system to a tight focus on high-impact, high-value innovation outcomes for operating firms, startups, capital community and the nation.

The global innovation eco-system continually the world around us and expands our vision of what's possible through technologies like semiconductors, Internet, vaccines(?) and AI. High-impact innovations like those drive billions in profitability for firms, and ensure prosperity and national security for us all. The stakes are high, and the level of competition – among firms and nations – is even higher. So, innovation is in every sense an investment in the future, and an essential one. But, not all innovation investments are created equal, nor are their returns.

In the investment community, we typically refer to an investment's ability to surpass the broader market, to beat the competition as it's "edge", or its "alpha" (α). And, in a similar fashion, we talk about an investment's predictability (or lack of it) as its "volatility", or its "beta" (β). Scale (α) and predictability (β) of outcomes. Two simple investment concepts with profound implications for the ultimate impact and value of innovation investments. The goal: predictable competitive advantage through high-impact, high-value innovations.

As competitive pressures rise in innovation, so does the necessity for achieving an edge over that competition. Innovation-AlphaTM is specifically designed for predictably creating and capturing value from opportunities across a dauntingly complex innovation eco-system. Turning that complexity into known options and the power to pursue them successfully. Employing Innovation-AlphaTM reveals where and how to intersect with the innovation eco-system to create the highest-impact innovations, that also generate the highest-value.

An agile process by nature, Innovation-AlphaTM tunes strategies for desired outcomes on the creation-side (e.g. investment opportunities, technological capabilities, or IP assets), the monetization-side (e.g. products, liquidity events, M&A, or licensing) or more holistically across the innovation value creation and capture spectrum. While innovation "eco-system" is broad and encompassing by nature, the eco-system for each technology or industry reflects a composition and character unique to the domain e.g. AI, semiconductors, clean-tech, and cyber-security.

Optimizing both how you invest in innovation, and the prospective returns as part of a single integrated process. Innovation-AlphaTM places you at the forefront of innovation, which by design also puts you at the front of the line for profitability.

Building upon our unique Opportunity DiscoveryTM eco-system analysis, Innovation Offset StrategyTM achieves asymmetric advantage over competitive firms and nations, through an adaptive framework for strategy development and equally important, its agile execution in an often-shifting competitive landscape. Comprehending risk as well as opportunity, it also reveals compensatory strategies to anticipate and bolster vulnerabilities.