Lux for Innovation Leaders:
Government & Academia
Client Priorities
We are precision focused on solving for your most critical innovation initiatives.
Technology Trends
Get insight into emerging technologies that could be disruptive to local industries or help advance your region’s mission – and understand their impact and timing.
Sustainable Innovation
Foster innovation to meet your country or region’s sustainability goals by understanding which technologies will deliver the desired impacts and what investments or other support they need.
Industries of the Future
Envision industries, applications, and technologies that will present opportunities for your region, and launch initiatives to drive change that will support on your organization’s objectives.
Building Innovation Hubs
Design and cultivate technology ecosystems that support current and emerging industries, attracting new talent and investment as well as bringing in new ideas to create world class sustainable innovation.
Incubating Tech Startups
Enable innovators that have the most commercial promise – understand help them attract investors and expand globally and maximize the positive effort for your region.
Policy and Regulations
Get pragmatic advice on how to guide innovation strategies based on regional policy changes and regulatory uncertainties.
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How We Help Clients
Lux is uniquely positioned to provide innovation leaders in government and academic organizations with answers to their questions about innovation strategies: What emerging technologies we need to support to help reach our region’s sustainability goals? How can we attract new talent and investors to our region? How can we guide innovation strategies and help design policy responses that will drive the most positive change?
Client Outcomes
Featured Resources
Access to the Lux Insights Platform
Keep up with innovation trends and early-stage technologies
- AI-enabled expert generated insights
- Innovator Assessments with scorecards
- Company indices
- Industry trend analysis
Understand novel technologies in detail with AI-enabled primary research
- Market opportunities
- Consumer insights
- Policy and Frameworks
- Technology deep dives
Interpret business impacts with trusted and actionable insights via the “Lux Take”
- Innovation Strategy
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Partnership and Acquisition Target Identification
- Decision Frameworks
Hear from Our Clients
When we evaluate our innovation team, those who use Lux insights on a regular basis demonstrate higher performance and better results than those who did not.
Access to the Lux platform and its analyst has made me much smarter and has helped increase my influence and value to the company.
Trendy topics; data-driven, tailored focus on request; convincing experts; and absolutely adequate client engagement – TOP!
I presented your idea about sustainability and innovation at the Summit and of all the slides in my deck, everybody noticed the slide you sent me. They all sat up and started taking pictures.
This is wonderful. If Lux wants to invite me to join your Board, I would be delighted to.
Even this first, short call….I found valuable. I was excited when I first heard about this service. After this first call, I’m even more excited.
Client Story
Opportunity Evaluation and Technology Roadmap for Materials Informatics
Challenge
The client had a large surplus of a biobased intermediate chemical to sell on the market or take a loss
on inventory and needed to find immediate offtakers as well as identify more stable markets to sell
into. The client asked Lux to think through all the potential new uses of the biobased intermediate
within a 1–2-step chemical synthetic pathway.
Solution & Value
Lux identified contact information for more than 50 potential offtakers for the biobased intermediate; the companies identified operate across various industries from fragrance to solvents to surfactants. In addition, Lux identified three potential novel opportunities in emerging chemical synthetics leading to new markets: green bio-jet fuel, clean polycarbonate, and synthetic cannabidiol oil.
Top Questions your industry peers are asking
Inquiry is a 50-minute virtual conversation between a licensed client member and a Lux expert. During this two-way consultative exchange, the Lux expert shares insights and acts as an advisor for the member’s strategic thinking or decision-making process.
Lux experts are having such conversations with clients every day to help them understand various aspects of technology innovation. Key questions innovation leaders in government and nonprofit organizations are asking about include:
How can governments balance improvements in emissions, water, land use, and waste generation against other issues, like working conditions and pay?
Do we need to fund sustainable outcomes directly, ie, with a carbon tax?
Of today’s hot technologies, which will make a real impact in five years?
How can we evaluate the level of technology and business risk carried by a start-up?
Are you working on similar questions? We can help.
The Lux Sustainable Manufacturing Radar
Across industries, manufacturing has a significant environmental footprint, and its mitigation is critical to fight climate change. However, innovation leaders struggle to develop a sustainable manufacturing strategy due to uncertainty around technology maturity, impact, and timeline for implementation.
In this report, “The Lux Sustainable Manufacturing Radar,” we present our flagship model to help innovation leaders access the full breadth of innovations that could impact their businesses and prioritize the right ones to build a viable sustainable manufacturing roadmap.
our unique know-how
What makes Lux special is our ability to link insights across industries, scientific domains, and cultures to give you a complete interdisciplinary and cross-industry perspective.
