How to Analyse Your Innovation Competitors with Kaila

27 August 2025

In an increasingly competitive business environment, understanding what your rivals are doing in innovation is essential. It’s not enough to observe their products; today you need to analyse their projects, their sources of funding, and their collaboration networks.

With Kaila, this task becomes simpler. The platform enables technology watch and provides detailed information on innovation competition across Europe. This way, you can anticipate trends and make strategic, data-driven decisions.

Why analyse competitors in innovation?

Analysing your competition in innovation offers multiple benefits:

Detect funding opportunities.
Learn which European programmes your rivals participate in.
Identify their most frequent collaborators.
Objectively measure their level of innovation.

This knowledge gives you a competitive edge. It also helps define your R&D&I strategy and supports the building of stronger alliances.

Kaila and its competitive intelligence capability

Kaila centralises information on European innovation projects and the organisations involved in them. With this tool you can:

Access any entity’s project history.
See which funding programmes it has used.
Analyse the average budget of its initiatives.
Identify the companies it collaborates with most often.

In this way, you turn scattered data into strategic insight for your business.

The Organisation Report: measure your competitors’ level of innovation

One of Kaila’s most powerful resources is the Organisation Report. This report allows you to measure an organisation’s level of innovation with detailed information on:

Innovation projects

A complete list of the entity’s projects.
Number of coordinated projects and collaborative projects.
European programmes in which it has participated.
History of funded projects.
Funding received for each project.
Average budget managed.
Average funds obtained.

Strategic collaborations

Companies and organisations it collaborates with most frequently.
Types of organisations it partners with.
Countries where its most frequent collaborators are based.
Complete list of collaborators.

This comprehensive approach makes the Organisation Report a key tool for monitoring innovation competition.

How to generate an Organisation Report in Kaila

The process is very straightforward. You only need three steps:

Select “Organisations” in the search bar drop-down and type the name of the entity.
Go to its page and click the “Organisation report” button on the left.
Download your editable report with a single click.

In seconds, you’ll have a strategic document to study your competitors’ innovation.

Use cases for analysing innovation competitors

Analysing innovation competition with Kaila can be applied in different contexts:

Start-ups seeking to identify strategic partners or investors.
Research centres looking for international collaborators.
Innovative SMEs that need to understand their rivals in European programmes.
Large corporations requiring technology watch to anticipate market trends.

In all cases, the information obtained enriches decision-making and reduces risks in R&D projects.

Benefits of analysing your innovation competitors with Kaila

Carrying out competitive intelligence with Kaila offers multiple advantages:

Efficiency: get in minutes data that would take weeks to compile manually.
Accuracy: access structured, up-to-date information.
Holistic view: analyse projects, budgets, and collaboration networks in one place.
Flexibility: download editable reports and adapt them to your needs.

All this makes Kaila an indispensable ally for any organisation competing in the field of innovation.

Conclusion

Analysing innovation competition is no longer a task reserved for large corporations. With tools like Kaila, any organisation can access strategic data on projects, collaborators, and funding.

The Organisation Report is the gateway to this knowledge. With a single click, you’ll obtain a complete X-ray of your competitors and be able to design a stronger, more competitive innovation strategy.

In a market where information is power, Kaila gives you the advantage of turning data into action.