Resources
Video course: Tech discovery for innovators
Learn how to discover and stay informed on technologies, R&D and business, directly from Mergeflow's founder and CEO, Florian Wolf.
In this hands-on video course, Florian will show you how you can quickly get a 360° view on a topic. You'll get tips for writing better search queries, learn how you can distinguish trends from hypes, and more. And it's free!
Watch the courseSnapshots of R&D and business activities across tech sectors and industries
We use our software to create snapshots of venture activities, patents, market analyses, R&D, news, blogs, and technology transfer related to various topics.
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Practical advice and original research
Our blog has practical advice and tips & tricks that help you improve your tech discovery skills.
We also do original research. Using our software, we explore topics across tech sectors and industries—computing, materials, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, and other technologies.
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Publications
These 'technology scouts' are hunting for the next big thing in tech. Here's how they do it
ZDNet, 01 September 2021.
Read the articleIdentifying gaps in automating the assessment of technology readiness levels
Proceedings of the Design2020 Conference, pp. 551-558.
By Safa Faidi and Alison Olechowski—University of Toronto, ReadyLab
Get the paperAgility enables employees to act
CHEManager, 22 January 2020.
By Andrea Gruss, interview with Florian Wolf
Read the interviewInfographics
Getting market insights
Getting market insights is a lot of work. It requires collecting data from across various sources, and then normalizing these data. For example, you have to make sure that all market size and growth rate estimates refer to the same time frame.
This infographic shows all the steps required for manual market data collection. By using automated data collection and natural language processing, Mergeflow automates all these steps.
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360° search visual checklist
A 360° results view in Mergeflow shows you findings across investments, markets, patents, R&D, and more. In order to help you quickly navigate the results, we made an infographic for you.
As an example topic, we used solid-state batteries.
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Venture investors in "deep tech"
For our blog, we use our software to research topics across tech sectors. We look at venture investments, R&D, patents, markets, news, and other things.
This map shows venture investors that we found across various "deep tech" topics, including battery, energy, greenhouse gas mitigation, materials, recycling, and vehicle technology.
You can read more about these and other topics in our blog.
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The Tech Discovery Skills Guide
See how successful innovators discover emerging technologies, research, companies, experts, and new markets.
Case Study
BMW
Mergeflow enables effective technology scouting and management
Mergeflow has been supporting BMW’s IT Tech Offices for several years with discovering, tracking, and deeply exploring new technologies, companies, and ideas.
Now, BMW's IT Innovation and Technology Management has designed the Tech Radar. It provides the basis for further monitoring, and facilitates the detection of technological relationships.
The solution is built on top of Mergeflow’s data lake and analytics, and offers additional functionalities and integrations, targeted to BMW Group’s individual requirements.
Download case study Read case study onlineTech Discovery Snippets
Tech Discovery Snippets are short stories about tech discovery. Snippets are primarily designed for smartphones. But you can read them on your notebook or tablet as well. Here are some examples:
