Sagentia Innovation works at the cutting edge of research and development, supporting the transformation of several key industries, including energy, agriculture, chemicals, food & beverage, consumer health, industrial equipment, and domestic appliances. Our work ensures that clients are brought commercially viable solutions to tackle sustainability targets, decarbonisation, energy transition, digital transformation, systems thinking, and advanced control optimisation.
Sagentia Innovation supports clients with unique challenges by driving innovation. Some projects might involve end-to-end product development, whereas others may involve solving a specific technical challenge. We can offer you a large team of expert researchers, applied scientists, engineers, software developers, designers, and human factors specialists, many of whom are industry specialists, so they will understand your world. Tell us what you need help with and what your desired outcome is and let’s discuss how we can help.
We understand that your business maximises value when your products and services are adopted by people. Therefore, we centre our capabilities around three core lenses, deploying multidisciplinary teams specialising in human, commercial, and technical expertise:
Insights and strategy
Leveraging science and technology to help you build your strategy
Our teams bring a strategic lens to help resolve our clients’ most critical innovation challenges. We uniquely combine strategic advisory and deep science and technology expertise.
Project activities are tailored to your requirements and can include:
Future insights
Changes in a combination of technology, regulatory, competitive, and user trends will all impact your future business. We analyse these to define the right spaces to play to mitigate uncertainty and maximise opportunity.
Strategy
With an articulation of the right space to play we help our clients to define technology pathways, business strategies and execution models. We develop playbooks, roadmaps and value propositions which deliver competitive advantage and a right to win in those markets.
Organisational improvement
We evaluate our clients’ organisation and processes across the entire innovation journey – recommending changes to improve efficiency and enhance performance.
Our work extends to optimisation of manufacturing processes, quality assurance, regulatory affairs and the application of analytic and generative AI in R&D.
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Capabilities
- Market analysis and opportunity
- Product and technology roadmaps
- Value propositions and playbooks
- Partner evaluation and execution models
- Digitalisation / AI in R&D
- Innovation process improvement
- R&D, regulatory affairs, and QA organisation
- Product and process cost optimisation
Design & invention
Transforming ideas into market-leading innovations
With integrated teams across a broad range of science, design, and engineering disciplines, our user-led and science-led innovation consultancy services identify and develop solutions that have the potential to deliver sustained market success and better consumer outcomes.
Project activities are tailored to your requirements and can include:
Human insight
We conduct comprehensive research, observations, and analysis to provide insights that inform invention. This includes understanding of the user needs, cognition and human physiology.
Modelling and simulation
We use powerful modelling and simulation tools to characterise the real-world performance of novel technologies. Combined with rapid lab-based testing we establish design rules to ensure the optimal performance in subsequent system engineering.
Concept generation
Our team excels in creating ‘minimum lovable products’, whether they are physical products, digital innovations, or services. We ensure these concepts are robust and aligned with market demands.
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Capabilities
- Consumer insights
- Fast-track concepts
- Design rules for technology and systems
- Mock-ups for user testing/regulatory consideration
- New technology applications
- Root cause for problem areas
- Validated concept designs
Product development
Accelerating product success from concept to launch with rapid development
Sagentia Innovation creates innovative new products and services that align end-users needs with commercial opportunities and technical feasibility. Our rapid product development processes deliver quicker returns on investment.
Project activities are tailored to your requirements and can include:
Proof-of-concept systems
We design, build, and test proof-of-concept systems to validate ideas and demonstrate their potential to different stakeholders. This ensures that concepts are viable and ready for further development.
Rapid development to launch
Our combined product development and human factors teams take systems from initial concept through to approval, production, and launch. We focus on safety, efficiency and effectiveness to bring products to market swiftly.
Product optimisation
We maximise ROI and minimise costs for both acquired and legacy products and systems. Our sustaining engineering and optimisation efforts ensure that products are performing at their best and exceeding market demands.
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Capabilities
- New technology system development and verification
- Formulation development
- Engineering or applied science verification testing
- Formative studies
- Full product development management
- On market product performance/cost optimisation
- Post market manufacturing/assembly optimisation
Sustainability
We leverage science, commercial and regulatory expertise to enable companies deliver on sustainability and growth
Our distinctive blend of expertise in sustainability, regulation, science and commercial understanding enables us to help companies realise opportunity and manage risks from sustainability.
We understand the complexity across different sustainability imperatives – carbon reduction, nature impact, circularity and resource efficiency and crucially the interplay between these to help companies successfully navigate necessary trade-offs and deploy winning solutions.
We work closely with leadership and project teams across R&D, operations, commercial and product stewardship functions. In delivering projects we work closely with Sagentia Regulatory.
Our services enable clients achieve sustainability ambitions through strategy, organisational practice, and sustainable innovation:
- Strategy: Integrate sustainability goals into business practice, delivering on both commercial and stewardship promises, and driving transformational change
- Organisation & process: Enhance sustainability capabilities by leveraging best practices to reframe business processes
- Innovation: Develop sustainable products and processes that deliver on sustainability whilst also delivering on customer needs, market value and competitive advantage
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Capabilities
- Foresight and scenario planning
- Managing risk and opportunity
- Impact of regulations and advocacy
- Technology options & trade offs
- Business models and value propositions
- Benchmarking
- Systems change
- Decarbonisation roadmaps
- Sustainable product design and formulation
- Cross-industry thought leadership
Careers
Join our dynamic consultancy business to work in an exciting science and technology environment with leading global organisations.
Expert insights
Explore our case studies to find out about our exciting work across consumer and industrial and read our latest insights and white papers authored by our industry experts.
Locations
Sagentia is headquartered in the Cambridge, UK and has numerous offices throughout UK, Europe and North America.