INNOVATOR ENGAGEMENT
Fostering Creativity to Develop Market-relevant Solutions.
The Design Sprint employs a cross-functional team to generate ideas of potential solutions to a market-driven problems. The team narrows down the market applications based on a preliminary market assessment and identifies the most promising pathway to pursue through customer discovery.
Outcomes:
- Identify market verticals, customer segments, and potential applications based on primary market research of the problem.
- Developing a Hypotheses – Value Proposition that can be tested through customer discovery.
Unleashing Technological Innovation through Strategic Discovery
Energy I-Corps Lite embodies the principles of the "Lean Start-Up" methodology. In this dynamic eight-week initiative, researchers embark on a transformative journey, defining value propositions and conducting customer discovery interviews to pinpoint market verticals where their technologies possess the potential to disrupt and establish competitive advantages.
Outcomes:
- Analysis of customer insights related to hypotheses - validation, further discovery, or pivot
- Gain an understanding to how customers assess new technology and product ideas into their decision processes.
- Identify key features customers want in an updated or new product and outline competitive advantages the Lab technology could offer and customer perceived value.
Transforming Postdoctoral Research Innovation into products and application solutions
The University of California / Los Alamos National Laboratory Entrepreneur Postdoc Accelerator is a transformative program designed to empower selected postdocs, guiding them through the pathways with the ultimate goal to transition their innovations into tangible product and application solutions within validated market opportunities.
Outcomes:
- Discovery of a near-term commercialization outcome for their technology, they validate a use case in the market, customer needs, product strategy, competitive landscape, pricing, financial projections, key partners & business model to illustrate a successful product launch and market penetration.
- Not quite yet ready for commercialization, they develop a technology roadmap to accelerate technology development, or a minimum viable demonstration required to attract serious customer interest and a commercialization plan.
Pioneering Commercialization from Research to Reality
DisrupTECH event is an impactful platform where participants showcase their technologies, presenting them as compelling business opportunities built from the initial discoveries of market opportunities unearthed in Energy I-Corps Lite. Please join us in August to participate in our signature event!
Outcome:
Technologies emerging from DisrupTECH may explore avenues such as cooperative agreements, licenses, or the formation of start-ups, aligning seamlessly with our commitment to fostering technical advancements.
Celebrating Excellence in Innovation
The prestigious R&D 100 Awards stand as a beacon, recognizing the finest innovations and highlighting the most groundbreaking technologies of the past year. These awards transcend industry boundaries, encompassing academia and government-sponsored research organizations. The Laboratory's relentless pursuit of discovery, development, advancement, and invention not only shapes a better and safer world but also fortifies national security and elevates national competitiveness.
Los Alamos National Laboratory nominates technologies that illustrate the depth and breadth of the Laboratory's contributions to advancements across industries. Please view past nominations and R&D 100 award-winning technologies as we develop the pathways for partnership development and commercialization.
