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Manage your Innovation Activities as a Strategic Asset.
Innovation is a strategic priority for companies across all industries and geographies. Those that invest in it deliberately, structure it properly, and finance it intelligently generate a measurable competitive advantage, not only through the products and services they bring to market, but through the substantial financial returns that well-structured innovation programmes attract.
At ABGi, we have built our expertise around two complementary disciplines: helping organisations manage their innovation activities as a strategic asset, and helping them secure every form of public funding for which those activities qualify.
These two dimensions are inseparable. The quality of innovation management determines the scope and defensibility of funding claims. The funding, in turn, accelerates the pace of innovation.
Sustainable innovation does not happen by accident. It requires structured processes, clear documentation, and governance frameworks that align R&D activities with business objectives. ABGi works with companies at every stage of maturity to design and implement these frameworks.
Our innovation management services span the full development lifecycle. ABGi helps organisations define R&D roadmaps that are both technologically ambitious and commercially grounded. We support the creation of documentation standards that satisfy the requirements of tax authorities, grant-awarding bodies, and auditors. Without adding unnecessary administrative burden to technical teams. In addition, we advise on intellectual property strategy, from the decision to file a patent through to the structuring of licensing agreements and IP transfer arrangements. And we work with finance and tax functions to ensure that innovation expenditure is captured, classified, and reported in a way that maximises the benefits available.
Sound innovation management is not a prerequisite for funding — but it is the single most reliable way to ensure that no funding opportunity is missed, and that every claim made can be substantiated.
Roadmaps
Strategy
Compliance
Funding
Governments around the world have built increasingly sophisticated mechanisms to encourage private sector investment in research, development, and innovation. These mechanisms take several forms:
direct grants, repayable advances,
co-financing instruments that support specific projects;
preferential tax regimes for income derived from intellectual property;
reduced social contributions for qualified research staff.
In most jurisdictions, several of these mechanisms can be combined.
ABGi’s role is to identify every instrument for which a company qualifies, coordinate the claiming process across all relevant territories, and ensure that the interaction between different instruments is properly managed — including the increasingly complex implications of the OECD Pillar II global minimum tax framework, which imposes a minimum 15% effective rate on the profits of large multinationals and affects the treatment of certain R&D incentives.
For companies operating across multiple geographies, navigating a fragmented incentive landscape requires more than local expertise in each market. It requires a coordinated approach that accounts for the interactions between different national mechanisms, avoids unintended conflicts between simultaneous claims, and manages the implications of international tax rules at group level.
ABGi’s International Department provides exactly this. A dedicated team monitors regulatory developments across all the markets where we operate, coordinates claiming processes across subsidiaries, and produces consolidated reporting that gives group finance and tax functions a clear view of innovation funding performance, risk, and opportunity at every level of the organisation.
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