State of the art

One of our customers, a pharmaceutical company, wanted to have an inventory and analysis of the connected devices on the market in the field of dermatology.

Our teams carried out an in-depth state of the art assessment through different bibliographic sources (specialized medical journals, scientific database, patents, etc.) supplemented by expert interviews (key opinion leaders in the field, specialized start-ups, academic researchers, etc.), allowing our client to have visibility on the existing devices on the market, the fields of application, the operating modes, the regulatory status and the exploratory projects in progress.

Our work enabled our client to be assured of having a complete mapping of the existing situation, in order to develop its roadmap according to our study, and to ultimately bring value to the current market.

We supported a biotechnology company in the realization of a state of the art in the field of oligonucleotides (oligonucleotides consist of short segments of nucleic acids: RNA or DNA).

In a context of growth and consequently of evolution of its R&D activities, our client wanted to acquire oligonucleotides technologies or to establish a partnership with an expert company in the field. Having a limited vision of this complex domain at a global level, our client called our team to carry out a state of the art aiming at identifying and characterizing existing technologies and players worldwide, in order to select a panel of technologies and associated players of interest for our client.

In the end, our project enabled our client to start discussions with 3 key selected players and to decide on an important investment for the future of its Research & Development activities.

Accompanying a cosmetic player in the realization of a global inventory of scientific knowledge concerning the link between emotions and perfume.

Our client wanted to identify or generate scientifically ‘robust’ research avenues for the coming years and to ensure that they were not working on work already being done by others.

The state of the art assessment carried out by our team allowed us to sort between purely “marketing” concepts and concepts that could be “scientifically documented” and to differentiate these concepts by region, allowing our client to identify relevant research leads for the launch of its future products.

For a player in the energy sector, Alcimed carried out a mapping of the technologies and associated suppliers allowing the transformation of air into water.

Our team implemented a three-step approach: a first identification of the main market data and trends, followed by a screening of the identified technologies on the basis of their level of maturity and key performance criteria for our client – leading to a listing of the companies active in the most promising technologies -, and finally an analysis of the companies on more economic criteria to complete the evaluation of potential partners.

Thanks to this state of the art, our client was able to identify and mobilize a network of key players for the development of its project.

For an institutional player, Alcimed carried out a literature review on technologies and materials for 3D printing of soft objects.

The objective for our client was firstly to identify the existing and developing solutions on the market in terms of 3D printers and materials suitable for printing this type of structure. Our team also mapped and characterised the players who could supply our customer with these technologies.

This state of the art enabled us to provide our customer with a global vision of existing 3D printing technologies and materials for printing soft objects, as well as all the players positioned in this market.

We helped a leading player in the field of nutrition to carry out a state-of-the-art review of advanced glycation products (AGEs), with the aim of improving our client’s knowledge of AGEs and assessing its position in its competitive environment.

Our team carried out an in-depth literature review on the subject, supplemented by targeted interviews with experts around the world, to investigate various aspects: the science behind the impact of AGEs on health, the existing technologies for limiting/controlling them, the regulations in force in the major regions of the world, the key trends in the field, and the players involved in research in this area.

Ultimately, our project enabled our client to obtain a mapping of trends in the field of AGEs from the point of view of their impact on health, regulations, competition, and existing and developing technologies. Our team was also able to guide our client on how to deal with the impact of AGEs in its product development context.