Technology Readiness Level (TRL) was born at NASA and grew up in defence procurement. It answers the question whether a technology actually works.

However, it was never built to answer a second question that has become impossible to ignore over the past few years: should you be working with the company behind it at all?

Innovation teams are increasingly asked to justify not just the technical merit of a partnership, but who actually stands behind it.

That gap is the subject of the article below: why enterprise readiness in defence and aerospace now has to include knowing who your startup is, not just what it can do. Get introduced to the KYS (Know Your Startup) concept.

Il y a des semaines plus humbles que d'autres. J'ai achevé en mars un essai sur la délégation de notre agentivité aux machines, Homo Delegatus, et tandis que le manuscrit cherche sagement son éditeur, hier (le 25 mai) paraissait Magnifica Humanitas, première encyclique consacrée à l'intelligence artificielle.

On May 12th, I had the privilege of running a full-day Corporate Venturing workshop with the Omexom innovation network at VINCI Leonard in Paris, alongside my colleague Yves Colinet.

En mars 2026, j’ai eu le plaisir d’intervenir à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles pour une conférence consacrée à mon ouvrage Révolutions silencieuses.

I recently sat down for Novable Voice with Adèle Yaroulina, author of Collaborate to Innovate and creator of the Co-Innovation Builder. Our host Yves Colinet put us in the same room to interrogate a question we have both spent years circling from different angles: why do large organizations need startups more than ever, while remaining the least equipped to absorb them?

We are starting to sell something that used to be inalienable: the way we lose each other. Griefbots and “digital afterlife” services promise comfort and “extended presence” by letting us keep talking to AI versions of our dead, built from their data.

In 2036’s “Energym” world, humans no longer train models; they literally power them, and buy back a sense of usefulness by turning their bodies into batteries for the very systems that made them obsolete.

Il y a quelques mois, Sam Altman, le CEO d’OpenAI, a eu cette phrase sidérante dans un podcast : shame on me if OpenAI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO (honte à moi si OpenAI n’est pas la première grande entreprise dirigée par une IA).

A keynote delivered at VINCI’s Omexom Innovation Club's kick-off in Paris, addressing innovation professionals from 35 countries, reframing innovation as a personal practice of "corporate porosity", intentional permeability allowing ideas to flow between the organisation and external ecosystems through information monitoring, collaboration, and cultural shifts.

Beyond Innovation Theater explores how corporates and startups can move past cosmetic programs to build real, mutual value through venture-ready and enterprise-ready collaboration. In just one hour, the keynote reframes open innovation from “Tinder-like” encounters into a disciplined practice where speed, transparency and attractiveness become the new currency of successful industrial partnerships.

Last week, Euroconsumers hosted a dedicated workshop on the Corporate Venturing Framework (CVF) to explore how structured collaboration with startups can accelerate the organisation’s 2027 strategic agenda.

In the keynote, Laurent started off with the evolution of corporate-startup collaboration. While Corporate Venturing has existed since the 1950s, a significant contemporary shift is happening amongst startups gaining control and leverage in these collaborations. Moreover, Laurent shared how to facilitate efficient collaboration, how corporations can utilise the Corporate Venturing Framework (CVF). And how startups, scaleups, and SMEs can use the proprietary Enterprise Readiness Level (ERL) self-assessment to become more “enterprise-ready,” focusing on maturity and corporate compatibility alongside innovative technology.

Another 2-day Innov8rs conference in Berlin, the corporate innovation community gathering yearly to exchange experiences and learn from peers. I had the privilege to host a workshop on Open innovation challenges and to co-moderate another session on AI in corporate innovation practices.

Laurent introduced the Corporate Readiness Assessment Model for B2B founders who want to facilitate partnership opportunities with corporates. It was at the first edition of the Startup Marketing Clinic in Brussels.

A fireside chat between Laurent and Martin Crochelet, partner at dualoop, for a conversation on startup engagement models, innovation strategy, and organisational “porosity.”

I had the pleasure of moderating a roundtable at the Future of Work Conference 2025, hosted by Lyreco Group, a forward-looking event that brings together innovators exploring the evolving relationship between people, organisations, and technology.

[KEYNOTE] On June 5th, I had the honour of delivering a keynote at the Belgium Startup Awards. I addressed a growing concern: why corporate-startup collaborations still underdeliver, despite everyone’s best intentions.

All too often, we still quickly associate the words "innovation," "epic," and "unicorns." But in 2025, the reality is quite different.
In a context marked by economic instability, reduced investment, and the need to deliver tangible results, innovation is taking on a new form. —> Interview in Solutions Magazine.

“Le Corporate Venturing va bien au-delà des simples modèles de partenariat”, assure Yves Colinet, Business Development Consultant, Novable.

In an era where artificial intelligence dominates headlines, many wonder if traditional innovation practices like startup scouting are becoming obsolete. We sat down with Laurent Kinet, the CEO and co-founder of Novable to explore how the hybrid approach is transforming the corporate venturing landscape while maintaining the crucial human element.