Champaign-Urbana

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Champaign-Urbana/UIUC ecosystem — supercomputing, AI, materials science, and engineering. Local expertis

West Lafayette

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the West Lafayette/Purdue ecosystem — engineering, aerospace, quantum computing, semiconductor research, and

Rochester

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Rochester ecosystem — U of R, RIT, Mayo Clinic, AIM Photonics, and optics/photonics R&D. Local expertise

How Technology Scouting Works

Technology scouting is the systematic process of identifying, evaluating, and connecting with external research capabilities that can address corporate R&D gaps. Melan runs continuous technology scouting across global research output to surface the labs, principal investigators, and IP clusters most relevant to an organization’s innovation priorities. For corporate innovation leaders, technology scouting is the first […]

Nashville

Melan facilitates research partnerships across the Nashville ecosystem — Vanderbilt, VUMC, Meharry Medical College, and health-tech R&D. Local expertise fo