About Us

Linknovate is an innovation intelligence platform that helps organizations discover emerging technologies, track innovation trends, and identify the key players shaping the future. Designed for technology scouting, competitive intelligence, and R&D teams, it combines AI-powered discovery with trusted insights to support smarter innovation decisions.

Discover

Discover emerging technologies and innovation trends

Linknovate is a powerful technology scouting and competitive intelligence tool designed to help organizations uncover:

  • Emerging technologies and breakthrough innovations
  • Early innovation signals and weak signals shaping future markets
  • New technology trends and industry shifts
  • Leading companies, startups, research groups, and competitors
  • Potential partners and collaboration opportunities

With Linknovate, innovation teams can explore complex technology landscapes, identify opportunities earlier, and stay ahead of market disruption.

Discover emerging technologies
Monitor and share innovation intelligence
Monitor

Monitor, analyze, and share innovation intelligence

Turn technology discovery into actionable insights with an innovation radar built for continuous monitoring. Linknovate helps you:

  • Track the technologies, companies, and trends that matter most to your business
  • Receive real-time innovation updates and market intelligence
  • Use AI-powered technology summaries to analyze information at scale
  • Create and share innovation reports in a few clicks
  • Support strategic decisions with reliable technology insights

Who uses Linknovate?

Linknovate supports organizations that need to understand the future of technology and identify new growth opportunities. It is trusted by professionals in:

Corporate Innovation & Strategy

Research & Development (R&D)

Technology Scouting & Advanced Technologies

Product Development & Innovation Management

Competitive Intelligence & Market Analysis

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) & Investment Teams

Open Innovation & Technology Transfer

From innovation leaders and R&D teams to investors and strategic decision-makers, Linknovate helps organizations discover opportunities, monitor competitors, evaluate technologies, and build stronger innovation strategies.

Trusted by innovation teams worldwide

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Our story

From the US to Spain, and beyond

Linknovate was founded in 2012 by Javier Cambón and Manuel Noia during their time at Stanford and SRI International. What started as a mission to understand emerging technologies evolved into a global innovation intelligence platform helping organizations discover trends, scout technologies, and identify the players shaping the future.

2012 · Palo Alto, California

Linknovate is born

Founded at Stanford University, Linknovate began with a vision to make technology discovery and innovation research faster and more data-driven.

2013 · StartX, Stanford Accelerator

Accelerating innovation

Linknovate joined StartX, Stanford's startup accelerator, gaining support to transform its technology intelligence vision into a scalable platform.

2015 · Galicia, Spain

European innovation recognition

Linknovate received several European awards (e.g. an SME Instrument grant from the European Commission) and expanded operations to Spain.

2015–2016 · Finodex & Microsoft Ventures

Growing the innovation ecosystem

Linknovate won first prize at the European Open Data Competition (Finodex) and joined the Microsoft Ventures Berlin program.

2017–Today · Global Innovation Intelligence

Supporting innovation teams worldwide

Through multiple European innovation projects and continuous product development, Linknovate now helps organizations across industries with technology scouting, competitive intelligence, innovation monitoring, and strategic decision-making.

Credentials

See Linknovate in action

Discover how Linknovate helps innovation teams uncover emerging technologies, monitor trends, and identify key players faster. Book your demo today and explore the future of technology intelligence.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions about Linknovate

Everything you might want to know about the platform. Still curious? Talk to us.

Getting started
  • Linknovate is an innovation intelligence platform that helps organizations discover emerging technologies, monitor innovation trends, identify key players, and support technology scouting and competitive intelligence.

  • Linknovate is designed for innovation leaders, R&D teams, technology scouts, product teams, corporate strategy teams, tech due diligence experts, innovation analysts, and organizations working with emerging technologies, market trends, and research & development.

  • You can explore Linknovate by booking a personalized demo with our team. We'll show you how the platform works and how it can support your innovation and technology scouting goals.

  • Yes. You can start exploring Linknovate with a free trial. Create your account to experience AI-powered innovation intelligence in action.

Capabilities & data
  • Linknovate helps teams with:

    • Technology scouting
    • Competitive intelligence
    • Innovation observatory creation
    • Emerging technology discovery
    • Market and trend monitoring
    • Startup and partner identification
    • Competitor analysis
    • Collaboration cluster monitoring
    • Technology due diligence
    • Innovation report generation
    • R&D and innovation data analysis
    • Technology landscape mapping
    • White space analysis
    • Innovative early signal detection
    • Innovation benchmarking
    • Strategic foresight and future scanning
    • Technology opportunity identification
    • Open innovation scouting
    • Research and R&D intelligence
  • You can track any type of organization with Linknovate. The platform allows you to monitor, analyze, and discover relationships across a wide range of entities, including corporates, SMBs, startups, research labs, universities, and public institutions.

    Linknovate also helps you identify similar organizations, detect collaborations, and explore connections across the global innovation ecosystem.

  • You can discover any type of innovation data across industry and academia. Linknovate aggregates and analyzes large-scale information sources to help you explore the full innovation ecosystem.

    This includes scientific papers, research publications, conferences, grants and funding data, specialized industry news, patents, trademarks, and other technology and innovation signals.

  • Linknovate combines AI-powered analysis with large-scale innovation data to surface trends, key players, and early signals across technology landscapes.

Technology & pricing
  • Linknovate's innovation database is updated daily. It includes more than 150M innovation records and 11M+ organizations, ensuring users always have access to fresh, up-to-date intelligence on emerging technologies and global innovation activity.

  • Yes. Linknovate uses AI to analyze large-scale innovation data, generate insights, summarize technologies, and help teams accelerate research and decision-making. Linknovate AI ensures data security and search anonymity, as well as transparency in its answers.

  • Yes. Pricing depends on your organization's needs. Schedule a meeting with our team to find the right plan for your innovation, R&D, or strategy workflows.