French innovation consultancy specializing in exploitation planning and circular economy business models across EU research consortia.
Strane Innovation is a French innovation consultancy based near Paris-Saclay that provides exploitation, market analysis, and business model development services within EU research consortia. Their participation spans remarkably diverse technical domains — from water systems to robotics to forensics — indicating they contribute cross-cutting innovation management expertise rather than deep domain research. They help translate research outputs into market-ready strategies, industrial symbiosis models, and circular economy business cases across environment, manufacturing, and food sectors.
Present across all 15 projects spanning unrelated technical domains (water, catalysis, robotics, forensics, policy), consistent with a cross-cutting consultancy role rather than domain-specific research.
Core theme across EPOS, SCALER, NextGen, ULTIMATE, AquaSPICE, and REFLOW — covering resource efficiency, water reuse, and material recovery in industrial settings.
Sustained involvement in NextGen, DWC, ULTIMATE, AquaSPICE, and RECONECT covering circular water, digital water management, and nature-based water solutions.
NextGen explicitly lists 'business models' as a keyword; SIM4NEXUS, SCALER, and EPOS all focus on translating resource efficiency into viable industrial practices.
BIZEOLCAT (petrochemical catalysis), EPOS (process industry efficiency), and TheGreefa (renewable energy in greenhouse farming) address industrial energy and emissions.
SHAREWORK (human-robot collaboration in manufacturing) and FORMOBILE (digital forensics) show peripheral but real engagement with digital and automation topics.
In their early H2020 period (2015–2018), Strane focused on broad resource management themes: smart city integration (BlueSCities), process industry efficiency (EPOS), water-food-energy nexus modelling (SIM4NEXUS), industrial symbiosis scaling (SCALER), and nature-based flood solutions (RECONECT). From 2019 onward, their portfolio sharpened toward applied circular economy — petrochemical catalysis (BIZEOLCAT), phosphorus recovery from dairy waste (REFLOW), water-industry symbiosis (ULTIMATE, AquaSPICE), and greenhouse energy innovation (TheGreefa). The trajectory shows a clear shift from high-level resource nexus strategy toward concrete industrial circular economy applications with measurable material and water recovery outcomes.
Strane is deepening its focus on water-industry symbiosis and circular economy implementation, making them a strong fit for future projects that need to bridge research outputs with industrial adoption strategies.
Strane operates exclusively as a consortium partner — never as coordinator — which is typical for innovation consultancies that provide exploitation and market analysis services across diverse technical projects. With 258 unique partners across 41 countries in just 15 projects, they work in large consortia and rarely repeat partnerships, functioning as a flexible plug-in partner rather than a hub with a fixed network. This makes them easy to integrate into new consortia where exploitation planning or business model expertise is needed.
Exceptionally broad network of 258 unique partners spanning 41 countries, built through participation in large multi-partner consortia. Their Paris-Saclay location positions them well within the French innovation ecosystem, but their collaboration reach is firmly pan-European with no strong geographic bias.
Strane's value lies in being a domain-agnostic innovation intermediary that can operate across unrelated technical fields — few SMEs can credibly participate in both petrochemical catalysis and mobile forensics projects. Their consistent role across 15 projects suggests they have a proven methodology for exploitation planning, market assessment, and business case development that research-heavy consortia need but often lack internally. For consortium builders, they fill the critical gap between "we built it" and "someone will actually use it."
