Become a TekScout

TekScout™ is UTEK's online Open Innovation Network, enabling companies to outsource your complex R&D projects to some of the best and brightest scientists from around the world. TekScout™ harnesses UTEK's relationships with over 2,000 universities, national labs and companies as well as thousands of individual scientists, or TekExperts, to work on the world's most challenging projects. TekScout™ helps bring your products to market faster and more cost effectively through a comprehensive Open Innovation Program.

 

Open Innovation has been proven to be the most effective way for companies to bring products to market today. A 2006 Harvard Business School Study found that presenting scientific problems to the outside community enabled several large R&D intensive firms to solve over one third of the problems that they had been unable to resolve internally. Furthermore, the study found that the most successful solutions came from experts that are at the boundary, or outside of their specific fields of interest, indicating the importance of reaching outside of your organization to successfully innovate. Post your development needs on TekScout™ and empower your organization to innovate faster and more efficiently than ever before.