Capabilities

01

Competitive Landscape Analysis

We map the intersections between a corporation’s unmet R&D needs and the most active research clusters globally — across both academia and industry. The result is a clear picture of where meaningful partnership opportunity actually lives, and where it doesn’t.

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02

Partnership Strategy

A productive introduction between a researcher and a corporation is the easy part. Making the collaboration durable requires a structural blueprint — one that aligns goals, defines governance, allocates resources, and establishes what success looks like for both parties from day one.

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03

Researcher-to-Corporate Matchmaking

Calypso, our AI-powered matchmaking platform, connects specific corporate business units with pre-vetted principal investigators and research labs based on alignment scores, publication history, and domain fit — replacing the informal networks that most corporations currently rely on to find research partners.

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04

IP Strategy & Licensing Support

Intellectual property disputes are the most common reason research partnerships fail. We navigate ownership structures, licensing options, and commercialization pathways before they become points of conflict — protecting both the researcher’s rights and the corporation’s investment from the outset.

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05

Research Program Management

Joint research projects stall when neither party owns the operational backbone. Solano gives both researchers and corporate partners a shared system of record for milestones, budget burn rates, and technical progress — removing the coordination overhead that derails timelines.

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06

Funding & Grant Facilitation

Corporate investment alone rarely maximizes a research program’s potential. Tiburon helps researchers identify and secure external funding — federal grants, foundations, and co-investment structures — that extends runway and reduces the financial burden on any single corporate partner.

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07

Technology Scouting & Trend Monitoring

The technologies that reshape industries rarely announce themselves. We maintain continuous surveillance of the academic landscape — papers, patents, and laboratory developments — to surface fringe technologies before they become mainstream and before competitors have noticed them.

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08

R&D Impact Reporting

Research milestones are meaningless to a board unless they translate into business terms. We produce an annual Value Impact Statement that converts technical progress into the metrics corporate leadership actually manages — revenue potential, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and brand equity.

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09

Portfolio Intelligence

Corporations running multiple research partnerships rarely have a coherent view of the whole. We provide a consolidated portfolio lens — surfacing redundancies, identifying cross-program synergies, and flagging where R&D spend is compounding in the wrong direction before it becomes a structural problem.

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Melan connects corporations, researchers, labs, and foundations with the technology partnerships they need to move further, faster.