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Innovation Advisory

We help clients identify actionable strategies to leverage or scale cleantech innovation for sustainable growth, resource efficiency, and climate resilience.

Navigate Uncertainty.
Unlock Opportunity.

Our innovation advisory services equip leaders with the insight and strategy needed to de-risk the future and seize emerging opportunities.
Combining deep market intelligence, a global innovation network, and years of experience, we partner with you to frame challenges and co-create practical, impactful solutions. Our curiosity fuels every engagement—and keeps us ahead of the curve.

Engaging External Innovation

Objectives & Readiness

Whether your objectives are to contribute to strategic growth goals or support business unit needs to improve resource efficiency and resilience, assessing organizational readiness is critical to setting priorities.

Establish Relevant Landscape

Mapping technologies, markets, and participants based on insight gained by engaging these participants will lead to options that support a fit.

Develop Engagement Option

Evaluating direct engagement activities from collaboration to scalable pilot, investment, or acquisition, as well as indirect activities such as becoming an LP in fund or sponsoring entrepreneurial support organizations, requires clear metrics aligned with priorities.

Roadmap and Execution

From immediate actions of engaging the shortlist to a systematic building of a portfolio approach of activities and processes, syncing with your organization’s capabilities and working towards metrics will enable success.

Engaging External Innovation

Ecosystem Building

Assess Alignment of Priorities and Climate Challenges

Assess how national and regional priorities align with climate challenges to create a strong foundation for scaling innovative solutions to future needs.

Ecosystem Gaps Analysis

Map key actors, stakeholders, infrastructure, and investment flows to highlight strengths and opportunities for growth. Identify areas where the ecosystem can further support the generation and scaling of innovation.

Global Benchmarking and Collaboration Opportunities

Bring insights from global ecosystems addressing similar challenges and with similar goals. Identify opportunities for partnerships and ongoing collaboration.

Action Plan to Develop and Strengthen the Ecosystem

Design targeted actions to enhance ecosystem capacity, foster stakeholder engagement, and drive systemic impact. Provide comprehensive roadmaps to develop policies, research, support organizations, funding, and infrastructure; engage demand and private sector finance to build a strong foundation for future innovation.

Ecosystem Building

Our Innovation Advisory Team

Global Reach, Grounded Insight

We bring deep sector expertise, a global view, and trusted relationships across the innovation ecosystem–built on conversations with key stakeholders. 

Collaborative Approach

We work hand-in-hand through a transparent, iterative process–sharing our thinking, real-time insights, and aligning around challenges. 

Delivering Real-World Impact

Through our collaborative approach and grounded insight, we create actionable options and roadmaps to help strengthen innovation ecosystems, understand complex landscapes, and enable direct engagement with relevant partners.

Reports

Cleantech Innovation Capacity Building Framework Report 2025

UNIDO’s Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) commissioned this report to track the progress of national cleantech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems across its partner countries, and to identify where targeted support can have the greatest impact.

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Experimentation Spaces Best Practices from Globally Leading Cleantech Innovation Hubs

Moving cleantech innovation from lab to real-world impact—especially in deeptech areas like sustainable energy, mobility, and the built environment—requires more than strong technology; it requires a full ecosystem of support, including testbeds, regulatory sandboxes, and living labs that validate solutions and speed deployment. This report identifies best practices across physical infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, program support, ecosystem governance, and funding/talent models that leading hubs use to build high-performing innovation environments.

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Trusted by Industry Leaders

Swire Pacific’s long-standing partnership with Cleantech Group has effectively supported us in our drive to push the innovation agenda within our diverse group of companies, and enhanced how we engage with start-ups and embrace sustainable technologies. Cleantech Group’s expertise in identifying the best start-ups to partner with and providing the robust business and impact cases needed to move projects forward have been instrumental in implementing over 15 sustainable innovation projects.

Sam Smith
Sustainable Development Manager, Swire Pacific

From first conversation to executed roadmap, we partner with leaders who want results—not just reports.

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