We provide end-to-end proposal development support to help you secure competitive national and international funding. From early-stage concept shaping and call interpretation to full proposal writing and submission management, we ensure your application is strategically positioned, technically strong, and commercially credible. We support consortium building, work package structuring, impact development, exploitation planning, budgeting, and alignment with evaluation criteria. Whether you need full proposal leadership or targeted input on specific sections (e.g. impact, commercialisation, IP strategy, or business models), we help turn complex ideas into clear, compelling, and fundable proposals.
What We Do
Advancing Research and Innovation Towards Investment Readiness
Investment readiness typically rests on three pillars: a strong business model and business plan, broad and strategic patent protection that underpins the business plan, and demonstrated lab-scale or pilot-scale proof of concept. ICP specialises in the first two pillars (commercial strategy and IP), positioning innovations for successful investment.
Protecting intellectual property by granting exclusive rights to inventions, brand identifiers, and creative works.
Evaluating whether a patent has commercial licensing potential based on its novelty, applicability, and market relevance.
Determining whether a product or technology can be commercialised without infringing existing intellectual property rights.
Defining how a venture may create, deliver, and capture value, supported by a structured roadmap for execution and growth.
Examining industry dynamics and customer needs to identify opportunities, segments, and demand drivers.
Ensures that the proposed solution fits market needs, customer expectations, and competitive conditions for successful adoption.
Our Projects
ICP are currently supporting several EC funded R&I projects across multiple industry domains:
Services
Practical commercial pathways from research output to real-world adoption.
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights
We help you secure and manage the full range of intellectual property needed to protect your innovation, brand, and creative outputs. This includes defining what should be protected, selecting the right form of IP, and shaping a filing strategy that supports your commercial goals. Strong and strategic IP ownership and well-scoped protection reduces risk, increases leverage in negotiations, is essential to investment readiness, and creates defensible value. Ultimately, this makes your proposition more credible for partners, funders, and investors.
Proposal Support & Writing Services
Patent Licensability & Freedom to Operate (FTO) Assessments
We evaluate both the commercial licensing potential of your patent (or patent application) and your ability to operate safely in the market. This includes reviewing the strength and scope of your claims, how clearly they map to real market needs, and whether the protected advantage is differentiated and attractive to potential licensees. In parallel, we analyse relevant third-party patents in your target markets to identify infringement risks early. Where issues arise, we outline practical solutions such as design-arounds, licensing strategies, partnership structures, or adjustments to market approach. The result is a clear picture of both licensing potential and operational risk; providing a safer, more investable route to launch, scale, and maximise value.
Business Models & Business Plans
We develop robust business models, business plans and business roadmaps that translate innovation into a realistic, investment-ready proposition. This means clarifying your value proposition, revenue logic, cost structure, and scaling pathway, and turning these into a coherent plan with credible assumptions. We stress-test the model against market realities and align it with your IP and commercialisation strategy. The outcome is a plan that funders, boards, and investors can trust.
Market Sector & Customer Analyses
We provide evidence-based market sector and customer analyses to ground your commercial strategy in reality. This includes mapping the market landscape, sizing opportunities, identifying key trends and competitors, and pinpointing the customer segments with the strongest need and willingness to pay. We dig into buyer behaviour, adoption barriers, and decision pathways so you know what drives uptake. These insights sharpen positioning, guide product priorities, and strengthen your investment case.
Solution-to-Market Alignment
We ensure your solution is tightly aligned with a real market need and a viable route to market and customer adoption. That means validating use cases, matching features to customer pain points, and confirming that your benefits are both clear and differentiated against alternatives. We identify gaps between what the market wants and what the solution currently delivers, then prioritise refinements that will accelerate traction. Alignment like this increases commercial momentum and reduces the risk investors see.
Industry Sectors that we are supporting today
We support innovation across multiple EC-prioritised industry verticals and sectors
Technology &
Digital
AI, IoT, 5G/6G networks, ICT systems, data and platform solutions, Techology Integrations
Health &
Medtech
Medical devices, diagnostics, digital health, therapeutics, clinical innovation
Biotech & Life Sciences
Biotech tools, genomics, bio-processes, biopharma, laboratory solutions innovation
Agrifood &
Nutrition
Smart farming, food tech, nutrition, traceability, Quaility, sustainable production
Energy &
Renewables
Solar, wind, hydrogen, bioenergy, energy system intergations, energy storage
Climate & Environment
Decarbonisation, emissions reduction, adaptation, monitoring, nature-based solutions
Mobility &
Transport
EVs, charging, smart logistics, aviation/maritime, autonomous systems
Advanced Manufacturing
Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0, automation, roboitcs, digital twins, process innovation
Materials &
Chemicals
Advanced materials, polymers, biopolymers, coatings, green chemistry, composites
Built
Environment
Smart buildings, low-carbon materials, retrofit, BIM, construction technologies
Water & Waste
Systems
Water treatment, resuse, waste valorisation, circular systems, resource recovery
Marine & Blue
Economy
Aquaculture, ocean monitoring, marine biotech, coastal resilience, blue tech
Space &
Aerospace
Satellites, earth observation, downstream data, avionics, in-orbit services
Security &
Resilience
Cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, risk analytics, safety tech, resilience systems
Creative & Cultural
Industries
Media tech, AR/VR, Metaverse, design, content platforms, digital creativity
Social Innovation &
Public Services
Govtech, edtech, health systems, community solutions, inclusion technologies
Circular Economy &
Sustainability
Circular design, repair/reuse, sustainable value chains, eco-innovation, LCA
Fintech &
Insurtech
Digital payments, regtech, blockchain, risk models, financial platforms, insurance
Retail, Services &
Tourism
Experience tech, service innovation, travle tech, hospitality, customer analytics
Sports, Wellbeing &
Wearables
Performance tech, sensors, wearables, rehabilitation, wellbeing platforms
Our Organisation
Our organisation is committed to embedding gender equality and women’s empowerment across every aspect of our work, guided by a formal Gender Equality Plan and robust HR policies that are implemented company-wide and reviewed regularly. We actively monitor and promote gender balance in recruitment, management roles, decision-making, project execution, and team planning, and ensure transparent, fair career progression with clear role definitions and promotion criteria that reflect gender considerations. We support a healthy work–life balance through flexible working arrangements, long-standing teleworking practices across our pan-european staff, and a focus on reducing unnecessary bureaucracy. We also integrate the gender dimension into all aspects of our work, to avoid bias, strengthen scientific quality, and to ensure inclusive, socially relevant outcomes.
ICP is committed to the principles of gender equality in all aspects of our work, and have a formal gender quality policy on file, implemented throughout the company, which is monitored regularly to ensure gender balance in all aspects of our work including recruitment, gender balance in all management level positions, associated organisational decision making, in the operational execution of projects, and in team/project planning.
The goal of our policies is to set the principles of gender equality under which ICP create programmes, processes and practices towards company’s vision and to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment are central to our organisation. Transparency and trust, active management support and agility are key factors towards the creation of a safe and equal working environment for women, which in turn promote efficiency, effectiveness and successful outcomes.
ICP has been actively promoting flexibility in terms of working hours and conditions. Due to its multinational team, teleworking has been always an option for the employees facilitating their daily lives and the balance between work and family. At the same time, the company is continuously working towards reducing bureaucracy which leads to unnecessary time spent on procedural issues by simplifying these processes.
ICP is committed to the principles of gender equality in all aspects of our work, and have a formal gender quality policy on file, implemented throughout the company, which is monitored regularly to ensure gender balance in all aspects of our work including recruitment, gender balance in all management level positions, associated organisational decision making, in the operational execution of projects, and in team/project planning.
Recruitment of women within the organisation has maintained a management focus over the years, evidenced by a positive gender balance achieved across all ICP labs and teams today. The senior management team also pay close attention to equal opportunities at all levels of the organisation, with clear definition of roles and promotion criteria that factors in gender imperatives in all aspects of both recruitment and promotions.
Our organisation takes into account gender dimensions and properties, ensuring that our solutions are not gendered biased, improving the scientific quality and societal relevance of our projects’ results including developing and testing prototypes where potential sex and gender differences are always considered. These actions help us to ensure that our research projects and proposals consider gender dimensions.
Contact Us
Feel free to reach out to us if you would like help or support in our areas of expertise:
Address: Room 12, Gateway Business Suites, The Reeks Gateway, Killarney, Co. Kerry, V93 PPA0
Phone: +353 64 664 4409 / +353 86 785 3470
Email: angela.osullivan@icp-europe.eu
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