New partners
We support our clients in their partnership projects (partner searches, public-private partnerships, collaborative projects) and in their scouting projects (technologies, acquisition targets, opportunities) and in their cluster studies.
Founded in 1993, Alcimed is an innovation and new business consulting firm, specializing in innovation driven sectors: life sciences (healthcare, biotech, agrifood), energy, environment, mobility, chemicals, materials, cosmetics, aeronautics, space and defence.
Our purpose? Helping both private and public decision-makers explore and develop their uncharted territories: new technologies, new offers, new geographies, possible futures, and new ways to innovate.
Located across eight offices around the world (France, Europe, Singapore and the United States), our team is made up of 220 highly-qualified, multicultural and passionate explorers, with a blended science/technology and business culture.
Our dream? To build a team of 1,000 explorers, to design tomorrow’s world hand in hand with our clients.
The search for partners is the process of finding and identifying potential partners in order to build a new collaboration. Whether it’s looking for a supplier, a subcontractor, a technology partner, a market access partner (distributors, sales force, …), … a search for partners involves identifying potential partners, assessing their suitability according to the established selection criteria, choosing the most relevant partners, negotiating the terms of the partnership and managing the relationship.
A collaborative project is an initiative in which several stakeholders work together to develop and bring to market an innovative new idea, product or service, forming a partnership to share knowledge and resources. This type of project is often motivated by the desire to bring research and development (R&D) work to market together. It is the combination of skills and resources, the sharing of risks and costs, and the sharing of potential benefits, that generates the collaborative project. Stakeholders may include industrial players, universities, research laboratories, start-ups or governmental organizations.
Technological scouting consists in identifying technologies that meet a precise set of specifications and enable a player’s practices to evolve, making them more competitive in their market.
A technological scouting project generally takes place in 3 phases: an initial phase of mapping potential technologies and making an initial selection, a second phase of fine-tuning the selection and choosing the best possible technologies, and a final phase of exchanges with the suppliers of these technologies to establish a final analysis enabling the best technology or partner to be chosen.
Legally speaking, public private partnerships designate a very specific category of public contract created in France in 2004: partnership markets. Through a call for tenders, they make it possible to involve private companies in the financing and management of a public structure.