Bridging the gap between what research discovers and what industry builds.
Melan builds research partnerships for corporations, researchers, labs, and foundations who need technology to move further, faster.
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How can we help you?
We help you translate discovery into advantage.
Melan connects corporations, researchers, labs, and foundations with the technology partnerships they need to move further, faster.
Every engagement is rooted in science.
Research Intelligence
We run continuous technology scouting across global research output to surface the labs, principal investigators, and IP clusters most relevant to your R&D gaps.
Partnership Alignment
We build the operating structure for partnerships that are based in a foundation of collaboration.
Research program management
We monitor the partnership after it launches to track progress, drift, and new opportunities for further collaboration.
IP Strategy & Licensing Support
Navigate ownership and commercialization before conflicts arise.
Targeted, strategic alliances across industries
Melan builds research partnerships across industries where technology moves fast and the gap between discovery and deployment is where value is won or lost.
Materials Science
Developing sustainable alternatives, manufacturing efficiency, or performance materials.
Quantum Computing
Need validated algorithms, hardware access, or talent pipelines that bridge theory and application.
Climate Technology
Require carbon solutions, alternative energy systems, or agricultural innovations ready for deployment at scale.
Advanced Robotics
Research partnerships in autonomous systems, human-robot interaction, soft robotics, surgical robotics, swarm systems, and robotic perception.
Biotechnology
We work with clients in synthetic biology, gene editing, cell and gene therapy, industrial biotechnology, agricultural biotech, and biomanufacturing.
Healthcare Services
Clinical informatics, medical device development, diagnostic technology, drug delivery systems, health data infrastructure, precision medicine, and patient outcomes research
Artificial Intelligence
Explore partnerships focused on advancing AI applications with machine learning, neural networks, large language models, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and security.
Critical Natural Resources
Learn about our partnerships for rare earth elements, lithium and battery minerals, strategic metals, water security, and food resilience.
When do you start your next collaboration? Now.
Those who maintain a competitive advantage are not working with the largest R&D budgets. But knowing how to work with what you have is where innovation is born. Start today.
Case study
A materials science partnership that reduced time-to-market by two years
Melan connected a polymer academic research group with a Fortune 500 chemicals corporation. The joint lab now employs fourteen scientists and has filed seven patents.
Case study
Translating quantum computing theory into pharmaceutical discovery
How we placed a Cambridge research team with a Basel-based pharmaceutical company. The resulting validation framework is now used across three commercial drug pipelines.