We organise high-quality technical and fact-finding visits in the fields of health and life sciences, research and innovation systems, social policy, engineering and environmental technology, smart cities, and the digital economy.
We assist our clients in identifying innovation gaps and answering the important questions that help them thrive while responding to the challenges of tomorrow.
We engage with customers from diverse industries and regions with focus areas such as health and life sciences, research and innovation systems, social policy, engineering and environmental technology, smart cities, and digital economy.
We are a knowledge transfer business specialising in international benchmarking, international fact-finding missions, and facilitating R&D partnerships.
We envision a world where companies, organisations, and governments actively engage with their counterparts internationally to benchmark and learn from each other’s successes and failures.
Tekiu provides a range of knowledge transfer and capacity building solutions that help you to benchmark and innovate. We value cross pollination and the power of diversity, sectoral exchange and cultural translation. Grounded in these principles we offer Discovery Trips, Partnering Programmes, as well as Evaluation and Impact Assessment services.
Discovery Trips are immersive, high-quality fact-finding delegation visits that help you benchmark your organisation internationally through new insights, inspiring experiences, and valuable networking across sectors and borders.
Our team also helps you to develop a plan to implement your learnings back into your organisation. We design Discovery Trips in the fields of health and life sciences, research and innovation systems, social policy, engineering and environmental and digital technologies.
Partnering Programmes are national and bilateral innovation exchange programmes that support SMEs and other innovative organisations to build collaborative partnerships.
Our clients are large organisations or Government departments wanting to stimulate R&D, development of new products, creation of new distribution and sales channels, etc. The participating SMEs gain a dedicated Tekiu relationship manager who helps them to build and maintain their new partnerships.
Our Evaluation and Impact Assessment services support our client organisations to measure impact, build capacity and exchange knowledge, as well as align resources with organisational strategy to further product and service innovation.
Tekiu also provides external evaluations for national and multinational programmes, organisational and strategic support, training and capacity building to strengthen and expand organisational capacity.
We envision a world where companies, organisations, and governments actively engage with their counterparts internationally to benchmark and learn from each other’s successes and failures.
We help you identify innovation and knowledge gaps through pre-trip workshops and/or working with your staff if desired.
We tailor your fact finding mission based on key focused questions and solutions you seek.
We design your Discovery Trip to offer a range of perspectives on pressing questions and bridge those gaps to discover new approaches and opportunities.
We have guided a delegation visit for a group of UK decision makers from the Life Sciences industry and government for the purpose of exploring the Swiss biotechnology sector and associated policies. You can read about our achievements and services we provided in full detail by downloading the case study.
We guided a delegation of business leaders and government representatives from Sweden to London to meet their counterparts and learn from UK energy systems innovation and policy initiatives. The 3-day ‘Discovery Trip’ featured visits to trade associations, energy regulators, innovative companies and investment banks.
Tekiu designed and delivered a Newton Fund-supported Innovation Partnering Programme between Turkey and the UK aimed at fostering collaborative R&D partnerships that address pressing societal challenges within Health and Life Sciences, Environmental Technologies, and Smart Cities.
Facilitating tailored exchanges, networking and first-hand experiences of the British and Turkish innovation ecosystems, Tekiu delivered this project in partnership with Technology Development Foundation of Turkey in Istanbul, Bilkent Cyberpark and ODTÜ Teknokent in Ankara, and Teknopark Izmir in Izmir.
This project received funding from the Innovate UK’s ODA Newton Fund programme. The Newton Fund aims to promote the economic development and social welfare of the 16 partner countries through building science and innovation partnerships.
Tekiu is one of 11 partners in a pan-European project about Citizen Science. Running over 3 years (2016-2019) under Horizon 2020 funding and co-ordinated by University College London, DITOs aimed to build the institutional and policy foundations for sustained deep public engagement in science and technology in Europe.
Throughout the project, Tekiu ran Discovery Trips for key decision makers across Europe to learn about Citizen Science and its relevance to current policy and research agendas. By establishing a channel for knowledge transfer between citizen science communities, policy makers and academics, Discovery Trips help to build capacity for the movement and enable future contributions to policy and research.
This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 709443.
International collaboration and building long-lasting relations is at the heart of Tekiu. Our close relationships with a large network of partners around the world are the stepping stone to brokering discussions between organisations taking part in our Discovery Trips.
Tekiu’s Discovery Trips have connected innovative countries such as UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, and Turkey. With an eye to the global context, we work iteratively with our clients, responding to their needs to deliver a program beyond their borders and expectations.
