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Cambridge science and technology consultancy

Sagentia Innovation is a science and engineering company that offers product advisory and development services driven by insight and invention. We bring together the advisory skills of Oakland Innovation and OTM with the product development capabilities of Sagentia to offer our clients a full range of R&D services.

Our services

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Combining the talent of the Cambridge cluster with our commercial expertise and market intelligence, our advisory services give our clients the widest perspective on new opportunities. Objectivity and the best advice are always paramount.

Uniquely, these advisory services are now seamlessly integrated with the technical expertise and problem-solving skills that have been the hallmark of Sagentia Innovation’s product development work for over 30 years. 

With expertise spanning the medical, food and beverage, consumer, defence, industrial systems, chemicals and energy sectors, our goal is to help every client identify the best opportunities for growth. Where appropriate, these are then realised as market-leading digital and physical products that quickly deliver tangible commercial benefits.

 

 

Find out more about our R&D consultancy in the welcome message from Paul Wilkins, Managing Director, Sagentia Innovation

What our clients say

“Sagentia Innovation checked all the boxes for us. We felt comfortable with their expertise, experience, their attention to detail and commitment. They were genuine, smart likable people, who worked with us continuously to overcome the challenging problems”

Joel Zuhars, Vice President, THINK Surgical

Thank you for a great job, technically both imaginative and rigorous, tailored to fit our business; enabling us to move this directly into action – a perfect illustration of what I believe Sagentia Innovation & Leatherhead represent.

Head of R&D, Leading Food Brand

“We chose to work with Sagentia Innovation because they were able to offer development of the IONA® software within a quality management system which ensured that performance of the product was assured at every step of the development process.”

Dr Stephen Little, CEO, Yourgene

“Experience with JIP formation and successful outcomes,  and significant global network of general EP market place technology  players and solutions.  OTM provides a significant contribution to Woodsides technical capability network.”

Business Co-ordinator, Woodside Energy

“We believe we have a very compelling technology that will solve many of the problems that make smoking cessation so difficult and working with Sagentia Innovation as a product development partner is allowing us to get this to market faster.”

Alan Levy, Ph.D., CEO , Chrono Therapeutics

"Sagentia Innovation brought excellent engineering capabilities to our projects, and we have greatly benefitted from our partnership."

Janice Chen, PhD, Co-founder & CTO, Mammoth Biosciences

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R&D space

Sagentia Innovation owns over 110,000 sq ft of research and development facilities across our Cambridge and Epsom sites with specialist labs and facilities to support the R&D work we do.

Extensive laboratories

Our labs offer extensive general lab space, with a fully-equipped machine shop, and specialist laboratories for electronics, optics, chemistry, environmental testing, microscopy, microbiology, sensory evaluation and more.

Market insight and roadmapping zones

We have several breakout areas throughout both sites for our advisory team to discuss and brainstorm market trends and technologies to discover new insights.

Chemistry expertise

Differential scanning calorimetry, chromatography & thermogravimetric analysis, rheology, electrochemical and spectroscopy instruments can all be found in our chemistry lab along with a comprehensive range of stock chemicals.

Microfluidic lab

A lab dedicated to developing microfluidic consumables and instrumentation for research in clinical use. With reagent storage, sensor technologies, electrowetting, microfluidic controllers and pumps, it is ideal for early prototyping and testing of the consumables and assemblies at the heart of many IVD and life science instruments.

Electronics lab

A lab with multiple bays, equipped with an oscilloscope, variable power supply and measuring equipment. We also have a central store of calibrated instruments for creating traceable measurements against international standards.

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Our consultants

As a leading technology company, our experience shows that the best solutions are created when a multi-disciplinary team works together. Our breadth of expertise brings together the best people to solve a problem and can include our scientists, engineers, human factors experts, data and AI scientists, innovation strategists, product developers and designers, and consumer insight specialists.

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Our work

We deliver a range of projects across our key sectors, from helping to identify partners for specialist development through to ingredient innovation to surgical robotics. Here we showcase a selection of our recent work.

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Our work

We deliver a range of projects across our key sectors, from helping to identify partners for specialist development through to ingredient innovation to surgical robotics. Here we showcase a selection of our recent work.

Read our case studies

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