Data driven stakeholder analysis

Use AI-driven insights to map key stakeholders in your innovation system

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In a fast-moving innovation landscape, making strategic decisions requires more than intuition—it demands insights. Which stakeholders influence your market? Who should you target in your business plan or exploitation, dissemination and communication strategy?

Our data-driven stakeholder analysis gives you clarity. We help you navigate the ever more complex and fast-changing international landscape of innovators. In a world where technology is evolving faster and faster, disruption is increasingly a reality, staying ahead requires more than traditional research. For industries and research partners alike, gaining timely insights into key innovators, their focus areas and collaboration dynamics, is both critical and challenging. That is where our data-driven approach makes the difference.

Our AI-powered, data-driven stakeholder analysis helps you meet these challenges effectively. Using Wheesbee© – PNO Innovation’s proprietary innovation intelligence platform – alongside the expertise of our consultants, we deliver clear insights into key players shaping your market. This includes competitors, their IP (patents), funded RD&I projects, and their strategic partnerships. Whether you are a corporate, high-tech SME, research organization, or part of a funding consortium, these insights empower you to make informed decisions, pursue valuable collaborations, and adapt to emerging trends and developments in a timely manner.

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Our approach combines smart technology with human expertise. Here’s how we guide you to strategic insight:

We start by understanding your goals. Together, we define the target sectors, key questions, and outcomes that will shape the scope of your innovation strategy.

Using Wheesbee©, PNO Innovation’s exclusive innovation stakeholder database, we scan government-funded RD&I projects, global patents, venture capital investments, and scientific publications. This rich data landscape enables us to identify influential stakeholders, uncover their current RD&I focus, track potentially interesting collaborations, and monitor innovation trends in real time.

We translate the collected data and insights into a comprehensive, visually rich report. If offers a clear view of the stakeholder landscape, with easy-to-digest visuals and targeted insights. Key trends and potential collaborations are highlighted to align with your specific goals and innovation strategy.

Our expert walks you through the results and, if needed, resents them to your board or project committee – ensuring the findings lead to clear, actionable conclusions.

We can build on the analysis to perform an in-depth market analysis, shape your innovation business plan, discover new partners for your open innovation strategy, develop your exploitation strategy, or create communication and dissemination plans for EU funded projects.

What you get: data-driven insights for strategic decision-making

A detailed, easy-to-read report with:

  • Key players and competitors in your ecosystem
  • Collaboration and innovation trends
  • Visual stakeholder maps
  • Actionable recommendations for strategic follow-up

40+
stakeholder analysis and ecosystems mapped

15+
industry sectors covered

10.000+
organizations analyzed

Our references

ARRIVAL

PNO Innovation mapped and analyzed over 3,000 technology providers and end-user industries in the innovative transport and logistics sector. The result is the development of ARRIVAL, a unique European Matchmaking Platform, along with complementary off-line services designed to mobilize financial resources and accelerate market access for “first of a kind” sustainable transport solutions. The analysis identified key innovators in the transport and logistics sector for each decarbonization technology, providing a solid foundation for targeted collaboration and investment.

Hubs4Circularity

PNO Innovation conducted a comprehensive stakeholder analysis of previously funded R&D projects across Europe, identifying and mapping over 750 organizations involved in Industrial and Urban Symbiosis., This included demonstration projects and multiple process industries connected to the European Hubs4Circularity initiative. The resulting stakeholder map and analysis supported the development of a targeted stakeholder engagement, dissemination and communication strategy, contributing to the growth of the European H4C Community of Practice, now with over 800 members from energy-intensive industries, SME solution providers, research, public organizations, and l industrial clusters.

Why choose PNO Innovation?

Exclusive data sources Exclusive data sources

We provide access to Wheesbee© – our proprietary innovation database – with more than 2 million funded RD&I projects, 34 million innovators, and 440 million patents and scientific articles for accurate, data-driven stakeholder mapping and analysis.

Decades of expertise in RD&I ecosystems Decades of expertise in RD&I ecosystems

With decades of experience in RD&I processes and partnerships, our experts turn complex data into meaningful stakeholder insights, grounded in a deep understanding of industry dynamics and innovation networks.

Customized, actionable information Customized, actionable information

We turn complex data into clear, visual reports that offer an actionable view of the innovation landscape, fully tailored to support your strategic planning.

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