Innovation tracking
Scout, qualify and rank the innovations that matter to you.
Learn more about Innovation trackingInnovo, ergo ero
Anticipate the future.
Prepare for it.
Transform.
Strategic foresight, innovation scouting and assessment, tailor-made ecosystems: Upperion helps public and private organisations envision the future, prepare for it and transform to grow.
They trusted us
Not to anticipate is already to lament.
Innovo,
ergo ero
ergo ero
Our conviction
Seizing innovation is a responsibility
Disruptions are rare, analysing innovations is heavy work, and the obstacles to adoption are many. Between promise and reality you need a method: scout, assemble, assess, pre-deploy. That is innovation tracking, and that is what we do, from the municipality to the European Union.
- Senior experts
- Proven method
- Europe and territories
- Digital sovereignty
10 European countries involved
in our assignments
Discover Upperion in our assignments
Who we serve
Eight sectors, one method
- 01 Public policy & administrations Discover
- 02 Civil security, defence & law enforcement Discover
- 03 Climate & ecological transition Discover
- 04 Industry & manufacturing Discover
- 05 Mobility & transport Discover
- 06 Health & pharma Discover
- 07 Construction & building Discover
- 08 European programmes & funding Discover
Expertise
Seven ways to prepare for the future
Foresight & serious games
Project into the future and prepare for change.
Learn more about Foresight & serious gamesHackathons & co-creation
Bring out pragmatic solutions that can be deployed within months.
Learn more about Hackathons & co-creationTailor-made ecosystems
A nest for innovation to grow, in the short, medium and long term.
Learn more about Tailor-made ecosystemsCollective intelligence
Facilitate complex, multi-stakeholder innovation.
Learn more about Collective intelligenceInnovation on demand
Build new products, services or processes.
Learn more about Innovation on demandArtificial intelligence & data science
Data analysis, statistics, modelling and AI, all the way to the field.
Expertise forged by co-founding three technology companies
- Industrial IoT Asystom ↗ Predictive maintenance of industrial equipment: autonomous sensors, embedded intelligence and AI to anticipate failures.
- Connected health NOpTrack Connected decision-support patches for the prevention of vascular and cardiovascular risks.
- Agriculture Caelimp Patented pheromone diffusers for insecticide-free crop protection.
Key figures
Evidence, not promises
- organisations supported
- 16
- public and private, most over several assignments or successive editions
- European countries
- 10
- involved in the Cyberspace online hackathon (Civipol)
- students, 500 SMEs
- 290
- mobilised over three editions of the FFB hackathon (2022, 2023, 2025)
- of innovations are full answers
- < 2%
- hence the value of knowing how to adapt and assemble
References
Concrete assignments
2022 – 2025 2 regional editions
ADEME Open Innovation Challenge — sustainable tourism
ADEME Ecological transition
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2023 – 2025 9 European ministries
Foresight methodology for law-enforcement agencies
AHEAD — European project Civil security & foresight
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2022 – 2025 3 hackathons, 290 students
Hackathons, SME cluster and foresight strategy
French Building Federation (FFB) Construction
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- Foresight
- Hackathons
- Ecosystems
- Collective intelligence
- Innovation on demand
- Ecological transition
- Civil security
- Public policy
- European Commission
- Industry
- Agritech
- Transport
- Climate
International
Assignments in more than twenty countries
Europe
- France
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- Austria
- Finland
- Sweden
- Spain
- Belgium
- Greece
Americas & Caribbean
- United States (Leanlia)
- Panama
- Colombia
- Chile
- Guadeloupe (HProjects)
Africa
- Côte d’Ivoire (AKOMKA)
- South Africa
- Botswana
- Kenya
- Rwanda
- Namibia
- Madagascar
- Senegal
- Tanzania
- Nigeria
In yellow, our local partners: Leanlia (United States), HProjects (Guadeloupe & Caribbean), AKOMKA (Côte d’Ivoire).
Method
The A-I-P framework: from the question to the roadmap
Built on C-K and Lean methods
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Analysis
Context analysis, identification of drivers and constraints, technology trends and weak signals. We start from the question that needs answering.
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Innovation
Identification of innovators and the ecosystem, challenging innovations, scoring, ranking and ability to combine building blocks.
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Pre-deployment
Testing, scoring and acceptance of solutions, applied solutions: an evidence-based capability roadmap for the leadership team.
Why Upperion
What makes the difference
Senior experts
Highly qualified, people-centred profiles and active professional networks.
Proven method
The A-I-P framework, built on C-K and Lean methods, reduces the risks of innovation.
Europe and territories
Assignments from the municipality to the European Union, in ten countries.
Digital sovereignty
A European IT system, hosted in Toulouse, with a low environmental footprint.
Where the innovations we assess sit
Hence the value of knowing how to scout, adapt and assemble rather than waiting for the perfect solution.
FAQ
Got questions? We have answers
What is innovation tracking?
Sourcing + adaptation + assessment + pre-deployment. We identify full, partial and adjacent innovations, score and rank them, then support their pre-deployment: it all leads to an evidence-based capability roadmap.
What kinds of organisations do you work with?
Agencies and ministries, local authorities and territorial agencies, European programmes, professional federations, manufacturers and innovative SMEs, in France and across Europe.
What formats do your hackathons take?
On site, remote or hybrid; over two days or several months; from the municipality to Europe. They can target student-led solutions, the identification of innovators, or serve as an antechamber to public procurement.
How do you assess an innovation?
Through a multi-criteria assessment: technology maturity, commercial maturity, ability to collaborate and investment assessment, positioned on our business / technology quadrant.
Where is our data hosted?
In Europe, with French and Swiss providers, and on Upperion’s own servers in Toulouse. No providers outside the EU.
How does a collaboration start?
With a conversation about the question you need to answer. We then propose a tailored A-I-P scope: short assignment, challenge, ecosystem or long-term support.
Contact
Let’s talk about your next challenge
A first 30-minute conversation, with no commitment, to understand your context and see whether we can help.