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20 July 2026Prototype, verification and validation: what evidence is needed at each stageThe terms verification and validation are used interchangeably in many engineering programmes, which creates problems that are usually discovered at the wrong moment. A programme that completes verification and believes it has validated its product has answered a different question from the one it needed to answer. Understanding the distinction, and what evidence is required at each stage, is…
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18 June 2026Technical due diligence for machinery, energy and mobility programmes: what investors should actually reviewTechnical due diligence on engineering programmes is often treated as a softer version of financial diligence: a check that the technology is real, that the team sounds credible, and that the demonstrator does something visually convincing. For software businesses, that level of review is sometimes adequate. For machinery, energy and mobility programmes, it is not. The technical…
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17 June 2026What a technical feasibility study should answer before you spend money on a prototypeMost engineering programmes that run into serious difficulty made their most consequential mistakes early, before a prototype existed and before significant money had been committed. The technical feasibility study is the point in a programme where those mistakes are cheapest to catch. The problem is that, in the rush to get to a hardware demonstrator, feasibility studies are often…
