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Corporate Development

We provide hands-on support to help the world's biggest companies future-proof their businesses by developing and executing global innovation and investment strategies.

Perhaps you're looking to raise your productivity, hit ambitious carbon reduction targets, or increase your sales through the creation of new businesses.

Whatever your goals, our on-the-ground specialists will help you transform your business by collaborating with the most innovative tech startups, universities, investors and other organisations in Europe, North America and Asia.

Our services include:

Research

Through our dedicated, multi-lingual teams based across Europe, America and Asia, we’ll research and report on your target markets, helping you to assess your opportunity and develop the best go-to-market, supply chain, open innovation and/or investment strategy.

Innovation

To accelerate your innovation, we’ll help you collaborate with the best global startups. We’ll help you engage with the ecosystem, scout for the most interesting companies, manage PoCs and achieve tangible results through hands-on support.

Business Development

We will help you take your existing products into new markets in Europe, North America, India and Southeast Asia, find new products for your home market, or create brand new businesses through collaboration or acquisition.

Investment Support

Whether you want to set up your own offshore venture fund, take an LP position in independent, third-party funds or invest directly into companies, we will help you research, develop and execute the best strategy for you.

If you'd like to discuss your innovation programme, get in touch.

"Intralink has been indispensable in helping us host our annual Open Innovation contest in 15 cities worldwide. The strength of their sourcing ability is unparalleled."

Kotaro Zamma, Head of Open Innovation and Business Incubation - NTT DATA

Client stories

Cashless payment ecosystem
Microgrid opportunities

Challenge:Understand the European cashless ecosystem

Market:Europe

Targets:Fintech startups, VCs, research institutions and government bodies

Results:Comprehensive report and innovation strategy recommendations

Japanese IT giant Fujitsu appointed us to support their innovation programme to explore new fintech business models and technologies. We were asked to identify and facilitate discussions with some of the top European startups and partner organisations in the space.

We used our extensive network to secure face-to-face meetings for Fujitsu and its partners – over a four-day visit – with 14 organisations in the UK, Germany and Denmark.

At the end of the visit, we organised a panel discussion with UK fintech industry experts. We also facilitated one-on-one workshops to help the client delegation zero-in on consumer trends and opportunity areas in the 'cashless society' in order to refine its innovation strategy further.

Challenge:Understand microgrid use cases and opportunities

Market:Europe and North America

Targets:Microgrid startups, research institutes and regulatory bodies

Result:Comprehensive strategy report and longlist of prospective partners

ENEOS, one of Japan's largest and oldest oil companies, appointed Intralink us to investigate the state of innovation in the European and North American microgrid market as part of its ESG strategy overhaul.

Our task was to help ENEOS learn from successful microgrid deployments and to outline short, mid and long-term strategic sustainability recommendations.

Over the course of 16 weeks, our team analysed the overarching trends, the key players and the way the global supply chain works – focusing on hardware, software and new business models. We looked at successful case studies across the UK, Germany, Denmark and the USA and analysed local policies, regulations and pricing. We summarised this in a strategy report, and listed 25 startups with which ENEOS could collaborate.

"Both the UK and Japan-side members of the project team were strong communicators and well-versed in the thought processes and business customs of Japanese corporates."

Seigo Kato, Operating Officer - Nikkei Media Marketing