Question 1

How do innovation departments find non-obvious cross-industry partners?

Accepted Answer

Most corporate innovation teams exhaust their usual networks fast: known competitors, suppliers, and direct-adjacent players. Ecosystem Innovation Roulette sidesteps that by having an AI model propose partners from outside the asking company's industry entirely, then generating a concrete collaboration brief so the team can evaluate the match in seconds rather than weeks of scouting.

Question 2

Who is Ecosystem Innovation Roulette for?

Accepted Answer

Built for corporate innovation departments, venture-clienting teams, open-innovation scouts, strategic-partnerships leads, and ecosystem designers who need partnership candidates outside their current networks. Typical users work at €100M+ firms with an active innovation mandate, or at the ecosystem-builder side (accelerators, programme leads, corporate-startup matchmakers).

Question 3

What kinds of partnerships does the roulette surface?

Accepted Answer

Deliberately unexpected ones. The matches are drawn from outside the asking company's sector, weighted toward pairs where the two companies operate in genuinely different ecosystems but have complementary data, distribution, brand, or customer-trust assets. Typical outputs: a CRM platform paired with a biometrics wearables company; a luxury fashion brand with an industrial robotics firm; a hospitality chain with a longevity diagnostics provider.

Question 4

Where do corporates source new business models using this?

Accepted Answer

The collaboration brief the roulette returns is effectively a starter business-model hypothesis: a joint value proposition, five concrete opportunities, and five next steps. Innovation teams use those briefs as triage input for their own new-venture and partnership pipelines, not as finished strategy.

Question 5

How does the AI matching work?

Accepted Answer

The tool analyses the asking company's website and public positioning, then prompts a large language model to propose a partner from a deliberately distant industry, along with a structured collaboration proposal: overview, opportunities, next steps, and a confidence score. The randomness is bounded: partners are drawn from a curated cross-industry pool rather than open-ended generation.

Question 6

Is Ecosystem Innovation Roulette free to use?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the core roulette is free. It is run as an open tool by Hyperadvancer; serious partnership programmes that want recurring or vertical-specific matching are handled as consulting engagements.

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