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Readiness Check

Is your company ready for successful collaborations?

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Identify potential, secure your competitive edge

Find out how prepared your organisation is to work with startups, scaleups and innovative solutions and identify the areas where this collaboration can enhance your competitive advantage.

In an increasingly digital and innovation-driven business landscape, collaborating with innovative teams can be a decisive success factor. However, our experience shows that approximately 65% of collaborations fail, often due to unclear objectives, poor partner selection or inadequate preparation on both sides.

Our Readiness Check helps you reduce the risk of failure and prepare optimally for future collaborations with startups, scaleups and innovative solutions.

Interested in the Readiness Check?

How does the check work?

As part of our check, we identify:

Collaboration readiness: How prepared are your company structures and processes for startup, scaleup and other collaborations?
Collaboration areas: Which of your business activities could be enhanced through innovative solutions?
Success factors: Which KPIs are suitable for measuring the success of a collaboration?
Strategic recommendations: What next steps should you take to ensure successful collaborations?

What you receive

Collaboration readiness assessment: Analysis of your resources, structures and corporate culture
Targeted collaboration areas: Specific areas with the highest potential for partnerships
Strategic action recommendations: Bespoke recommendations and concrete partnership instruments such as awards, challenges, accelerator programmes and VC investments
Increased success rate: Through structured preparation, you can develop your company more strategically and achieve measurable improvements with reduced administrative effort

Proven track record

With over 200 supported teams and the expertise of more than 100 mentors from our accelerator network, we have developed best practices for successful innovator collaborations. Companies such as SachsenEnergie have established successful partnerships following our check and strengthened their innovation capabilities.