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
Seven diagnostic dimensions
Your composite score and maturity band summarise overall readiness. Seven dimension scores on the results radar show exactly where structural gaps concentrate.
Engagement Mode
Depth of involvement across five engagement modes: technology integration, venture client, corporate venture, R&D co-development, and public consortium programmes.
Strategy & Governance
Commercial hypotheses, executive sponsorship, board attention, and governance for deep tech in the corporate strategy cycle.
Investment & Resources
Ringfenced budget, financing visibility, and investment logic suited to multi-year frontier technology programmes.
Execution Competencies
Need definition, evaluation capability, time-to-engage, initiative management, and learning capture across engagements.
Operational Execution
Talent depth, pilot track record, procurement adaptability, and TRL practice for onboarding frontier suppliers.
Ecosystem & Partnerships
Structured relationships with startups, universities, corporates, and public programmes; partnership terms that work for frontier suppliers.
Risk & Ambition
Risk appetite for pre-commercial and cross-border work, commercial framing of returns, and ambition to scale beyond pilots.
Your output
What the assessment delivers
Preliminary composite score (0-100)
A weighted composite (0–100) across all seven dimensions, anchored to five maturity bands.
Maturity band and dimension breakdown
Emerging through Leading classification, with scores across seven dimensions 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
Up to six priority actions: band context, three core actions for your weakest dimension, plus mode and flag refinements where relevant.
Sample Output
DTMI Readiness Profile
Developing: moderate readiness with structural gaps
Full breakdown across all seven dimensions on your results page.
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
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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