Comprehensive support throughout the entire innovation process

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Comprehensive support throughout the entire innovation process



2-TRAINING & EFFICIENCY OF ORGANISATIONS

Program management

Immunohaematology

Client Issues

Securing a development program with an innovative offer that could swing the market and involves the medium-term future of the company.

Methodology used

Building operational solutions for structuring, monitoring and reporting activities, in order to secure the management of complex and innovative program

  • Data collection: individual interviews with all the project managers of the various sectors involved into the program (biology, hardware, software, process, industrialization ...)
  • Analysis: failures of the actual control, proposal of a specific approach to innovation for program management, monitoring of activities, collaboration, reporting, and survey of risks and resources
  • Collaborative creation of specific tools (ex. Heatwave) which are adapted to the customer program management. Constitution of a schedule by the synchronizations for the entire program.
  • Monitoring and implementation of tools to support the appropriation and deployment of management tools according to the program’s progress

Results

A secured program by the appropriation of new collaboration modes between activities in an agile dynamic management in addition to the practices in place.

Fundamentals of Innovation awareness (ex MVP)

2-TRAINING & EFFICIENCY OF ORGANISATIONS

Change management

Luxury leather goods

Client Issues

Support new technologies integration into the manufacturing sites, and guarantee the success of the transformation from invention to innovation.

Methodology used

  • Data collection: individual interviews with leather workers and management teams on different manufacturing sites
  • Analysis: ability of the population to accept innovation, evolutions, directions and recommendations, based on feedbacks
  • Formatting a comprehensive approach that integrates the technical monitoring of the project in a specific innovation environment
  • Constitution of a working group of ten people from different sites to allow tool’s appropriation by the teams

Results

An innovative project deployment kit, sort of a tool box for the project manager in charge of new processes integration.

2-TRAINING & EFFICIENCY OF ORGANISATIONS

Boosting innovation strategy

Energy distribution

Client Issues

Innovate in the Technical Directorate service approach, development support and maintenance of the international network

Methodology used

  • Definition of the customer’s need and relevance (legitimacy / impact) to innovate
  • Organization of internal researches and interviews to determine the best expectations
  • Data analysis and research of insights on current innovations in network activities
  • Creative Workshop group: emergence of promising an meaningful innovations
  • Individual work to validate ideas feasibility and establish the roadmap actions

Results

7 concrete innovation projects to develop on the tools, based on new technologies and a bottom-up approach, adapted to the needs and international constraints, in the axis of the group's innovation dynamic.

3 - CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY

Creative Technology

Pharmaceutical/medical industry

Client Issues

Identify new approaches for the thermostability of biological molecules

Methodology used

  • Bibliographical analysis and interviews:
    • investigation of existing solutions in the domain
    • investigation of solutions in other industries
    • identification of relevant expertise
  • Organisation and animation of a creativity day with specialists from diverse sectors (experts in biochemistry, chemistry, chemical physics, polymers, biomimetics…)
  • Creative technology, development of concepts for thermostability

Results

  • Summary table of the proposed concepts
  • Data sheet by concept summarising its main principle and the relevant expertises

3 - CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY

Creative Technology

Industrial chemistry

Client Issues

Identify new molecules or products with lubricant properties resistant to defined constraints

Methodology used

  • Bibliographical analysis and interviews with different stakeholders to identify the lubricant molecules used in other industries
  • Organisation and animation of a creativity day with chemists from diverse sectors (chemists, synthesis specialists, experts in materials science and cosmetics…)
  • Creative technology, identification of existing molecules, and concept development: new molecules to be synthesised

Results

  • Summary tables of identified molecules and products
  • Data sheet for each molecule or concept summarising its properties, chemical structure, ease of implementation, availability, indicative cost, freedom to operate, and examples of formulations
  • Synthesis of results with a decision-support matrix (performance/constraint and availability/cost)
  • Recommendations on identified molecules/products for priority testing

3 - CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY

Creative Technology

Paper industry

Client Issues

Identifying new technical solutions to eliminate the use of carton mandrels

Methodology used

  • Broad overview with the identification of potential solutions (bibliographical analysis and investigation of related sectors)
  • Organisation and facilitation of a creativity day with specialists from diverse sectors (experts in mechanics, chemical physics, surfaces and interfaces, polymers, chemistry)
  • Creative technology, development of solution’s concepts: products to develop

Results

  • Synthesis of results with a decision-support matrix (performance/constraint and availability/cost)
  • Recommendations on product testing priority
  • Operational support on product testing

4 - STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT: TECHNOLOGY/MARKET

Market study

Chemistry

Client Issues

Obtain a state of the art in plant extraction technologies in order to position the customer’s technology against competition.

Methodology used

Bibliographical research and identification of key actors (Selection of 5 to 10 technologies)

Technology analysis using bibliography and interviews

Identification for each technology:

  • Strengths
  • Weak points
  • Application areas

Assessment of 3 technologies scoring criteria:

  • Cost
  • Environmental impact of the process (toxicity and amount of solvent)
  • Technological maturity

Results

Positioning the client’s technology among the evaluated technologies.

5 - NEW CONCEPTS/PRODUCTS/USAGES

Ideas detection approach for breakthrough innovations

Energy

Client Issues

  • Identify disruptive innovation potentials to ensure the development of turnover
  • Proposals that improve consumers' lives, while being true to the brand and technological capabilities

Methodology used

  • Upstream: insights and trends research, user comments, adaptation of creativity techniques for the seminar
  • 3 days seminar: Intervention of external experts, 6 creativity techniques, trends and research of meaningful uses in the future, breakthrough offers identification (products and services)
  • Selection of the 15 best ideas, exploration and 3D simulation, customer trials, product saga roadmap

Results

  • Mapping of cultural expectations, insights and scope of market acceptance
  • Book of the 240 ideas of the seminar and exploration of the 15 best concepts developed during the seminar
  • Innovative offerings Development Plan

5 - NEW CONCEPTS/PRODUCTS/USAGES

Creativity seminar: stimulating the innovation process

Retail

Client Issues

Providing keys to give birth to ideas within the company, stimulating creativity and eventually allow the animation of an Innovation Lab.

Methodology used

  • Upstream: research of insights and trends, sociologist intervention on 2 development axes
  • 3-day seminar: creativity animation, mind mapping to highlight new practices, products, and new development paths
  • Synthesis and reformulation of the best tracks, 3D renderings
  • Training on creativity techniques explored during the seminar

Results

Book grouping the 11 best concepts developed during the seminar + prototypes : concrete proof of the company's innovation approach.
Stimulation of creativity and implementation of an innovation dynamics within the company: ideas emergence, creativity techniques, developed paths exploitation, …

5 - NEW CONCEPTS/PRODUCTS/USAGES

Development of new ways of using cosmetic products

Cosmetics

Client Issues

Create new effects and a new make-up gesture.

Methodology used

  • Broad overview
    • Existing field solutions
    • Solutions from other sectors
    • Identification of relevant expertise
  • Organisation of a creative workshop

Results

Portfolio of thirty potential innovations

Client Testimonials

"The creative technology methodology developed by BLOOMOON helped fuel the innovation pipeline with thirty innovative concepts.
Also more breakthrough concepts that fit perfectly into our long-term strategy were generated and pre-assessed technically. "

Mrs. F, Applied Research for makeup Laboratories, cosmetics group

7 - ECONOMIC STUDIES AND COSTING

Market analysis and search for new products diversifications

Agrofood industry

Client Issues

Analysis of the profitability of the crop and the installation of a flax seed processing plant.

Methodology used

  • Study and analysis of the socio-economic impact of the introduction of flax on the farm profitability
  • Study of all by-products of flax seed
  • Determining the efficiency and cost of each transformation process and the sale price for each co-product

Results

Deduction of products and co-products to be produced to obtain the best profitability.

9 - MARKET RESEARCH (TECHNO PUSH/MARKET PULL)

Market analysis

Agrofood industry

Client Issues

Evaluation of carotenoids sourcing and potential economic benefits for a new market entrant.

Methodology used

  • Identification of the different existing sources of carotenoids
  • 20 interviews in Europe
  • Study of volumes and prices for each type of carotenoids in the world

Results

Quantified recommendations on type of carotenoids to develop.

9 - MARKET RESEARCH (TECHNO PUSH/MARKET PULL)

Market study

Energy

Client Issues

Study of the market potential for a new energy path.

Methodology used

  • Identification of industrials with a specific type of boiler in France, and power-consuming industries, and analysis of their energy consumption (40 interviews in Africa: Senegal, Ghana, Gabon, Morocco and Mauritania and in the Caribbean Arc: Colombia, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Panama)
  • Conducting a study to get energy prices and their future developments in the areas concerned as well as current and future regulations and legislation.
  • This study resulted in an overview of existing energy solutions in the industry with associated prices and regulations.

Results

A selection of the most relevant types of industries for the customer and recommendations on important characteristics that must have an energy solution.

10 - TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING AND PARTNERSHIPS

Technological inventory of metallic materials for aeronautics applications

Aeronautics

Client Issues

Understanding and identification of stakeholders and skills of a technological field

Methodology used

  • Elaboration of research profile (keywords)
  • Identification and selection of relevant sources
  • Activation of the research system:
    • Patent databases and publications
    • Network of experts

Results

Identification:

  • of stakeholders/products
  • of advance research laboratories associated with the field
  • of industrial/university collaborations
  • of ongoing projects

Client Testimonials

"The work by BLOOMOON has been very positive and has completed the vision that we have of the subject.
Two key points have been extracted from this:

  • Highlighting of a research group from XX University that we had identified but were unable to identify the importance of the work
  • Revelation of a significant activity in China even if it is still chaotic at the present moment. "

MB, material expert and manager of special materials' segment for Materials Management Process

10 - TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING AND PARTNERSHIPS

Mapping of glass surface self cleaning solutions for solar energy application

Renewable Energy

Client Issues

Identification of self-cleaning solutions

Methodology used

  • Broad overview of potential solutions using an analog approach (from other sectors and other fields of knowledge)
  • Bibliographic research
  • Interviews with stakeholders and renowned experts

Results

Identification and positioning of solutions to be tested

Client Testimonials

"The study conducted by BLOOMOON helped identify already existing technologies for cleaning or preventing the deposition of dust; and which can be easily transferred to the company, as well as potential solutions under development and being researched which need to be followed up. "

ML Coordinator, R & D, glass group

10 - TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING AND PARTNERSHIPS

Technology Consulting

Sports shoes

Client Issues

Obtain sliding/ground contact properties for outsoles (tennis shoes)

Methodology used

  • Product research (rubber bases and additive charges)
  • Interviewing suppliers and experts

Results

  • Proposal of three new formulas to be tested
  • Recommendation of a solution conceivable from an industrial perspective

11 - PREPARATION OF FUNDING PROPOSALS

Project funding (Investissements d’Avenir)

Chemistry and environment

Client Issues

Fund collaborative research programs on the 3rd generation biorefinery under the “Investissement d’Avenir” program (ITE)

Methodology used

  • Arranging and conducting of working groups (WG) to structure financing folder (WG Equipment and Investment, WG Training, WG Search, WG Governance, WG Valuation)
  • Encryption of economic and social challenges of the program
  • Writing economic benefits (revenue, and potential target markets)? social (consolidation and assessment of issues in terms of employment) and societal
  • Assistance in financial engineering and consolidation of scientific portions of the financing folder
  • Financial intelligence databases, Business plan, liquidity plan and financing plan
  • Support to the European notification (externalities, competitive environment, economic data)

Results

Obtained funding by the CGI and ANR, expenditure base exceeding € 200M
(ITE PIVERT)

11 - PREPARATION OF FUNDING PROPOSALS

Project financing (Grant FUI)

Paint industry

Client Issues

Get a FUI grant for development covering bio-based metals collaborative project

Methodology used

  • Identifying program issues for the client and for funders
  • Writing folder
  • Creating financial databases, Business plan, liquidity plan and financing plan
  • Presentation of the file to policymakers

Results

Obtaining the FUI grant
The project has been running for 2 years and has good results
BLOOMOON was commissioned to carry out the technical and financial coordination of the project.

13 - TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Experimental study of new synthesis routes of nano objects

Electronic

Client Issues

Synthesis of SrCO3 nano needles 

Methodology used

  • Analysis of routes already tested by the client
  • Proposal of new synthetic routes
  • Experimenting: synthesis and characterisation of the products obtained

Results

Validation of developed synthetic routes

Client Testimonials

"The experimental work and scientific understanding has enabled our group to better understand the difficulties associated with the synthesis of such nano-objects. more significant advances have been made by BLOOMOON's expertise and work and has allowed us to deepen the synthetic routes developed.  "

The Director of research for electronics products, chemical group

13 - TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Experimental Study

Catalysis industry

Client Issues

Development of a new catalyst: deposit of a thin layer of TiO2 on Al2O3

Methodology used

  • Proposition of a synthesis protocol
  • Experimentation: development and validation of the proposed synthesis protocol
  • Characterisation of the end products

Results

  • Validation of a synthesis protocol
  • Pilot test protocol with the client for future industrialisation

Client Testimonials

“The experimental work undertaken by BLOOMOON along with its expertise on the synthesis of TiO2 allowed us to select a deposit of TiO2 on Al2O3. The results obtained in the laboratory were highly satisfactory, and the protocol is today being implemented as a pilot study in the view of industrialisation.”

Mr E., Responsible for adsorbent R&D, chemical group

15 - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Market study

Glass market

Client Issues

Market study, business development and identification of leads for coating technology on flat glass.

Methodology used

  • Identification of worldwide glass processing sites
  • Contact each site (70 interviews in Africa, America, Europe, Middle East and Japan) to determine the treatment process used, the amount of glass treated at each site, the amount of treatment product used per year and to test their interest in another technical solution.

Results

This study resulted in recommendations on the processing technique preferred by the customer, and a list of sales leads brought to the customer.

16 - FISCAL INCENTIVES (CIR, JEI, CII, CIMA)

Support in the management of Research Tax Credit

Specialty Chemicals

Client Issues

Assisting a global industrial group in the benefits of the Research Tax Credit

Methodology used

  • Definition of intervention methods based on the mastery of the device for each company, including support and training for writing technics of the scientific justificative record
  • Deployment of the mission in a project mode
  • Regular reporting to customers
  • Delivery of a structured literature on research topic that was sometimes transversal to various group companies

Results

Comprehensive analysis of the eligible perimeter with an augmentation of 20% of the Research Tax Credit and the development of a strong, easy to update scientific documentation.

Client Testimonials

"The collaboration with BLOOMOON was particularly appreciated because of the level of engagement of consultants and respect paid to the achievement of objectives. Through upstream work structuring, along with a good understanding of our business, their analysis in a scientific manner of our business helped identify the scope of our R & D work reliably. In parallel, a further investigation on our various centres of expenditure was conducted to provide completely secure solutions. "
 
Mr. Valere Logel, Product Development Manager, Clariant, Chemical Industry

16 - FISCAL INCENTIVES (CIR, JEI, CII, CIMA)

Audit and security for Research Tax Credit

Agro-industrial Group ("SMEs conglomerate" - Green Chemistry / Food and Animal Health / Human food / Bio-fuels)

Client Issues

Accompanying a global industrial group in securing and optimizing the RTC

Methodology used

  • Auditing of RTC practices in subsidiaries
  • Recommendations for securing and optimization
  • Defining Best Practices and Group Procedures
  • Leadership Development R&D / Financial Directors subsidiaries
  • Assistance with tax audits in several subsidiaries
  • Scope of eligibility analysis and establishment of ad hoc business cases

Results

Harmonization of group practices => Uniformity of approach, streamlining practices
Security: Strength folders
Optimization Additional scope used (including through the thematic approach)