Here's what Weizmann Institute of Science should do to generate more qualified meetings every month.
Lead generation
The fastest way to find more great industry partners, funders, or collaborators is to go after companies or people who resemble your best current contacts.
Here is why: Your research center has already worked with some forward-thinking corporations, innovative foundations, or international universities. Finding 'lookalikes' means targeting similar organizations who operate in comparable industries or show interest in the type of science, innovation, or tech transfer you offer.
To do this with less manual searching, you can use Leadsforge. Just share a couple of your favorite corporate or foundation contacts—or even your best alumni profiles. Leadsforge will find similar organizations and contacts so your next outreach can focus on the most likely prospects.
If your competitors or peer institutes have thriving innovation programs, you can reach the very people following their LinkedIn pages. This is a simple way to tap into warm, interested audiences, including R&D and BD professionals actively engaging with science content.
Here is why: People who follow competitor or peer LinkedIn pages are often decision-makers interested in research trends, collaborations, or investment opportunities.
To get these contacts, simply enter your competitor’s LinkedIn company page name or link into Leadsforge. Leadsforge will handle finding the people for you.
Action: Share their LinkedIn company page link in Leadsforge and it will find it for you.
You can get much better results by clearly defining your ideal outreach targets—your ICP (Ideal Customer Profile). This means specifying which teams, countries, or industries matter most to your goals.
Here is why: For example, you might choose to focus your outreach on heads of R&D in Pharma and Biotech in Israel, EU, or the US, or on alumni currently working at major foundations worldwide. Leadsforge makes it easy to refine your targeting so you reach exactly the people you want. Just set your filters for team type, job role, geography, and industry, and Leadsforge will do the heavy lifting.
Targeting
Personalizing outreach by audience segment greatly boosts engagement for research institutes.
Here is why: For your campaigns, create segments based on industry (e.g., Pharma, Biotech, AgriTech), company size (corporate R&D, startups, or large foundations), location (Israel, EU, US, UK), and ICP fit (specific job roles like Innovation Director). This focused approach means every message resonates better and gets genuine attention.
Think of each vertical as a slice of your addressable market: Pharma R&D, Biotech, Space-tech, AgriTech, or Foundation donors. Each vertical should get tailored outreach—corporate BD teams want different information than alumni donors.
Here is why: When you customize your message and lead magnet for each vertical, you’ll demonstrate you understand their interests and increase your odds of getting real replies.
Keep your outreach timely and relevant by using triggers—events that indicate someone is likely to care about your message. For example, a new research award, invention disclosure, or conference invite.
Here is why: Real-time triggers ensure your outreach never feels random. When someone in your network receives news about a new ERC grant or spinout announcement, it’s the perfect moment to connect. Include a reference to that trigger in your email for immediate relevance.
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Here is why: For an institute like yours that needs to balance high-value personal introductions with efficiency, Salesforge lets you focus on strategic communication and tracking results, not technical details.
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Here’s Why
With Leadsforge, you can skip manual research and get curated contact lists of the exact people you need for corporate partnerships, BD/licensing, foundation outreach, or alumni engagement.
Here is why: For research teams juggling many priorities, Leadsforge saves hours by bringing you only high-quality, relevant contacts so you can build genuine connections faster.
For mailbox infrastructure, we recommend setting up Google or Microsoft mailboxes via Primeforge to maximize deliverability and trust during your personalized outreach. For your event invites, newsletters, and larger broadly targeted sends (like alumni comms), use Mailforge. This shared, cost-effective infrastructure ensures you can message at scale without risking your main domain reputation.
Here is why: Primeforge gives you high-trust, real-inbox infrastructure to build relationships; Mailforge handles your broader communications safely.
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