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Sylphium Consulting LLC
Innovation & strategy for agri-tech
Sylphium has significant international experience in the commercialization of innovations, new product and business development, and the implementation of change management. The firm has deep experience across a broad spectrum of activities that define the global agri-food value chain.
Innovation
Innovation (in recent years) is mostly about the practical and successful application of many types of ideas, including inventions, to create business value. Bringing an innovation to market often demands challenging and changing the status quo to enhance a customers’ experience and bring new value to them. However, the innovator is typically “a person who is less tolerant of structure (guidelines, rules) and less respectful of consensus”. Hence innovation for many otherwise historically successful organizations is very hard to achieve.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
How we can help you
Sylphium Consulting can help organizations with both sustained, disciplined product innovation as well as navigate the turbid waters of disruptive innovation. We have deep experience monetizing product, service and business model innovations.
Sylphium assists global companies institute open innovation schemes into their R&D&I organisations, SMEs enhance their competiveness and helps start-ups as well as academic institutions establish the processes and mind-set requisite to establishing successful collaborations with corporate partners.
We help organizations implement context specific and culturally appropriate frameworks and tools to formulate business strategies, assess core competencies, establish robust internal and external innovation networks, manage innovation project portfolios, and build innovation cultures.
Industry sectors
Food, Nutrition & Nutraceuticals
Life Sciences
Agri-Tech
Biotechnology
Specialty Chemicals
Higher Education
Client profiles
Venture Capitalists
Technology Start-ups
Fortune 500 companies
Academic Institutions
Some clients we have supported
Examples of projects
Technology access
Negotiating on behalf of a US-based life-science start-up
Fund-raising
Fund raising for US & Asian life science VC funds
Open innovation
Designing a framework & policy for a Fortune 500 company
Due diligence
Pre-investment assessments for US, European & Asian VCs
Strategy
Strategy review for a major European ag-biotechnology group
Company formation
Creation of a plant biotech spinout company for a global multinational
Business plan: Hardware
Drafting a business plan for a US-based agricultural autonomous vehicle start-up
Business plan: Biomaterials
Drafting a business plan for a South American biomaterials start-up
Business plan: Animal genetics
Development and execution of a business plan for a European animal genetics start-up
Innovation workshop
Conducting innovation management workshops for a Fortune 100 company
Innovation policy
Designing an innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem policy for an Asian university
Incubation
Designing a start-up incubator infrastructure and policy for a European business school
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