Blockchain platform for collaborative R&D and innovation

Secure, transparent and agile R&D with partners.

Verifiable trust, protected intellectual property and full traceability — at the speed innovation demands.

A 30-minute conversation with one of the founders. No commitment.
Active projects24
Partners186
Traceability100%
Ecosystem performance
On-time delivery
Traceability100% auditable
Reporting timeMonths → minutes
Supporters and partners
EESC-USP FAPESP University of Cambridge IPT — Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas WEG
Our origin

Lotik came out of a critical problem in collaborative innovation: how do you share intellectual property and knowledge securely and traceably?

We studied why R&D collaborations fail before building the platform that prevents it. The research behind Lotik began at the University of São Paulo, was validated with industry and presented at international forums. We know this environment from the inside.

Challenges in collaborative R&D and innovation

Three questions that shape the daily work.

Three questions that shape the daily work of anyone running R&D with partners — and that Lotik was built to answer. Ecosystems, networks, bilateral partnerships: the format changes, the challenges are much the same.

Sharing without fear

The unease of exchanging data, files and sensitive information between partners, and the risk of exposing what shouldn’t be exposed.

Deliverables and investment

Do the deliverables and the investment match what was agreed?

Reporting and compliance

How do you prepare reports and speed up compliance, when they are assembled by hand every cycle?

The cost of the status quo

Collaborating without traceability carries cost and risk.

A cost absorbed in silence today — without legal cover, audit or transparency.

Rise in disputes
+70%

Growth in intellectual property, innovation and technology disputes in one year. Under WIPO rules, 59% of the parties are SMEs and startups. Source: WIPO · ADR Highlights 2025.

High costs
US$ 2,3–4 mi

Average cost of a single patent dispute, with one to three years until judgment. Source: AIPLA · Report of the Economic Survey.

Lack of transparency
R$ 7,9 bi

In innovation tax incentives flagged as lacking adequate monitoring and traceability. Source: TCU, Brazil’s federal audit court, in its audit of the Lei do Bem.

The solution

Secure. Transparent. Agile.

A blockchain-based platform supporting collaborative R&D and innovation projects.

Secure

Protected intellectual property and provable authorship. Immutable records, cryptographic protection and evidence of authorship.

Transparent

Every action recorded and verifiable by those entitled to see it. Permissions by partner and a single source of truth.

Agile

Reports and agreements in minutes, not months. Versioned agreements and tracked indicators.

How it works

A simple flow on an immutable foundation.

From planning to project closeout, every stage is recorded and verifiable, with no extra manual work.

Planning

Partners, participation (equity), contributions in kind and permissions defined before the work starts. Each party declares the background intellectual property it brings to the project.

Agreement

Contracts, deliverables and ownership of the intellectual property generated are recorded alongside the project, with each partner’s rules visible to those entitled to see them.

Management

Progress, contributions delivered, payments, agreement changes and indicators in one place.

Traceability

Every contribution and every change versioned and verifiable, from project start to closeout.

What the research found

What our research found.

We asked the people who live it every day — 102 R&D and innovation leaders across eight countries and four continents. The same difficulty came up in all of them.

102

interviews

63%

in decision-making roles

59%

intellectual property

49%

contracts

Next step

Collaborations at their full potential.

A 30-minute conversation to understand your context and show the platform in action.

Response within one business day.