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Kaila by Zabala Innovation
Kaila is a platform developed by Zabala Innovation, the leading international consultancy in innovation strategy and R&D&I funding.
Since 1986, we have been supporting our clients in driving their innovation forward, turning it into the key factor of their competitiveness.
Our goal in developing Kaila is to ease the pressure on your traditional development processes and to streamline and accelerate your innovation by providing the perfect space to manage, boost, and energize it—along with the ecosystems that support it.
Our Story
In 2018, the project was formally launched and the development team was formed. In 2019, Zabala’s European projects team started using Kaila as a tool to support internal processes. In 2020, its usefulness and potential transcended the boundaries of the company and after sharing it with some of our customers, we decided that the entire innovation community should certainly have the opportunity to extract value from it.
It was not anymore a mere search engine. Its main strength lied in its potential to grow a whole Community of value around Innovation in Europe. That way Search became Kaila, the first smart platform focused on the identification and interconnection of the different innovation actors in Europe. In 2021 Kaila became smart, integrating an adaptive and autonomous recommendation engine, Kaila Wise.
In 2023, we launched Kaila Connect as an internal tool to build innovation ecosystems together with our clients. And in 2024, we developed Kaila Observatory to create innovation observatories that enable advanced analytics on specific topics for members of the same organization.
Today we are proud to share this tool with the innovative community, which will undoubtedly make a difference to those who want to move forward in an agile and dynamic way in their innovation processes.
Our Values
A unique and open environment for the entire innovation community
We firmly believe open innovation is the key answer to accelerate time to market, reduce associated costs and increase the level of novelty. Through Kaila platform, we will be able to help you to drive the transition from closed to open innovation, and rapidly adapt to this rapid and dynamic technological change of the current innovation context by building your own personalised Innovation Ecosystem.
Listening, understanding and reacting
At Kaila we have the capacity and the ability to constantly take the pulse of the innovation community, understand their needs, and quickly transform them into value through our platform. There is no need too small or too ambitious, only inspiring challenges.
In-House Made
Kaila came to life as a main part of ZABALA’s Digital Transformation Strategy. Originated from an ambitious internal digital innovation project, eventually turned into a new source of value to customers at a European level, complementing ZABALA’s offline services and responding to the challenges of innovative entities.