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
Find out how we can help you maximise new opportunities
Combining the talent of the Cambridge cluster along with our commercial expertise with market intelligence, our advisory services give our clients the widest perspective on new opportunities – with objectivity and best advice 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 more than 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.
What’s special about us?
Why do we do it?
Where we add value
What’s special about us?
- Innovation. We mix technical depth with a broad range of scientific, commercial, and user-focused skillsets to tackle our clients’ toughest problems. We deliver strategies and solutions that disrupt the status quo
- Insight. We bring intellectual rigour and experience to our clients’ work; we challenge and drive return on investment
- Speed. We work fast, with teams focused on end-goals, quality and time-to-market, operating in markets we know and understand
- IP. We put our clients first. If we work on a patentable piece of technology on behalf of a client, our clients always get the IP
- Regulatory. As part of Science Group PLC we have access to >100 regulatory and compliance specialists
Why do we do it?
- Because it matters. We seek to help our clients make a difference to real lives
- To raise the bar. By sharing our breadth of expertise and experience across the markets we know we can facilitate and accelerate successful innovative growth and business strategies
- For our clients. When we work with our clients they see us as their partners. Their success is vital to us and we are genuinely excited and delighted when they select us to be part of their journey to research and develop
- We love it. We’re fascinated by science and technology, the world in which we live and the macro trends and issues which are changing our lives. We want to help shape transformation
Where we add value
- If something seems an impossible task, we can deconstruct it and come up with a plan
- We will take on – and deliver against - moonshots
- We believe we have one of the widest skills bases anywhere and can take on some of the more unusual or challenging projects. If it’s a weird one, give us a shout
- We’ll always tell our clients if we can’t help, or if we think there’s someone better for the job
- If you are responsible for looking at macro trends in your businesses that might pose a threat or create an opportunity and you need to do more digging – we can dig for you. And more than that we’ll make sense of what we find and give you next steps
- We enjoy our work. And we think you’d enjoy working with us too
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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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.
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.
We have several breakout areas throughout both sites for our advisory team to discuss and brainstorm market trends and technologies to discover new insights.
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.
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.
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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Leadership
Managing Director
Managing Partner – Medical
Senior Vice President
Managing Partner – F&B and Consumer
Managing Partner - Industrial, Chemicals & Energy
Highlights over the years
Scientific Generics founded by Professor Gordon Edge
Scientific Generics rebranded as Sagentia
We developed the world's first mobile phones finance application
Sagentia Ltd certification to ISO13485:2003 Science Group plc
Working with our client we developed the first high power LED for less-invasive treatments
Science Group acquisition of OTM Consulting Ltd
We developed the app for the first fully implantable continuous glucose monitoring system
We co-developed the world’s first CLIA waived molecular test for flu
World’s first intra-operative molecular imaging system
Science Group acquisition of Oakland Innovation Ltd
Pioneering to revolutionise proton therapy – watch this space
Merger of Sagentia, OTM Consulting and Oakland Innovation to form Sagentia Innovation
Science Group acquisition of TP Group
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
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
