The Deep Tech Maturity Index
How deep tech–ready
is your organization?
The DTMI answers a question that most organizations never formally ask: how prepared are you to identify, absorb, pilot, scale, and commercialize deep tech, not as an aspiration, but as a structured capability?
The structural gap
The question is not
whether you're deep tech
Most European organizations are aware of deep tech. Few are structurally prepared to act on it. Interest does not translate to execution, and the gap between the two is where value is destroyed.
The DTMI measures the structural factors that determine whether a deep tech initiative gets funded, piloted, and scaled, or whether it stalls in ambiguity between a boardroom slide and a procurement queue.
Weak board sponsorship
Deep tech stays in the innovation team and never reaches executive mandate.
No dedicated budget structure
Initiatives compete with BAU priorities without ring-fenced deep tech investment.
Procurement friction
Internal processes designed for commodity vendors cannot absorb frontier technology suppliers.
Pilot-to-scale failure
Pilots complete successfully but commercial follow-through never materializes.
Assessment framework
Three dimensions of readiness
The DTMI maps readiness across three structured dimensions, each covering distinct organizational capability areas.
Strategy & Governance
How deeply is deep tech embedded in your strategic planning, board mandate, and governance structure?
- Board-level mandate and sponsorship
- Deep tech in multi-year strategy cycles
- Innovation governance and accountability
Operational & Investment Capacity
Do you have the budget structures, talent, and operational processes to move from interest to execution?
- Dedicated deep tech R&D budget allocation
- Internal deep tech talent and skills
- Pilot structuring and procurement agility
Execution & Ambition
Have you moved beyond intent? Do your partnerships, pilots, and ecosystem relationships produce commercial outcomes?
- Active deep tech partnerships and pilots
- Ecosystem engagement and startup access
- Pilot-to-contract conversion ambition
Your output
What the assessment delivers
Preliminary composite score (0-100)
A single number anchoring where your organization sits across all six capability dimensions.
Maturity band and dimension breakdown
Nascent / Developing / Advancing / Leading classification, with scores per dimension revealing where gaps concentrate.
Narrative interpretation
A short, structured summary of what your profile means, and what it likely means for your current deep tech initiatives.
Recommended next steps
2-3 specific actions based on your lowest-scoring dimension, and an invitation to go deeper with DTI advisory.
Sample Output
DTMI Readiness Profile
Developing: moderate readiness with structural gaps
Audience
Who should take the assessment
The DTMI is designed for senior leaders in corporate organizations, those with strategic or operational responsibility for how the organization engages with frontier technology.
It is most valuable when completed by multiple functions. A CEO and a CDO answering the same questions will rarely give identical answers, and that discrepancy is itself a diagnostic signal.
CEO / MD
Setting strategic direction and board-level mandate for deep tech engagement.
CFO
Budget structures, investment criteria, and financial risk tolerance for frontier technology.
CTO / CDO
Technical evaluation capability, ecosystem relationships, and innovation governance.
R&D / Innovation Lead
Pilot structuring, supplier evaluation, and conversion from experiment to commercial commitment.
Strategy / Digital Transformation Lead
Long-term positioning, roadmap development, and cross-functional alignment for deep tech adoption.
Individual assessment
Free- Your personal readiness score (0-100)
- Maturity band and dimension breakdown
- Narrative summary and recommended next steps
- Cross-leadership alignment analysis
- Organizational discrepancy report
Multi-stakeholder diagnostic
PremiumWhen the CEO rates Strategy & Governance at 82 and the COO rates it at 41, that 41-point gap is the real diagnostic. The multi-stakeholder diagnostic reveals misalignment invisible from a single perspective.
- Composite organizational score
- Alignment heatmap across leadership roles
- Dimension discrepancy analysis and commentary
- DTI executive briefing session
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