Sports teams rely on scouts to spot the next star. Technology firms, increasingly, do much the same. According to a 2024 survey by Gartner, nearly half of R&D organisations now employ formal technology-scouting processes. These knowledge scouts serve as the boundary-spanners of the corporate world, trawling external start-ups for ideas that might sharpen product development or streamline internal processes. Yet new research from Texas McCombs id…
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