Hybrid labs, or labs-in-the-loop, are the future of R&D innovation. These holistically engineered labs fuse physical experimentation, data, automation and AI to accelerate development into real-world impact.
Author profile
Karen Balbi
Senior Innovation Consultant for Sustainability
Karen supports all stages of service development from opportunity assessment and ideation, prototyping, go-to-market planning and business model design and scaling to launch.
She has 20 years experience of Digital Products across FMCG and Pharma, managing conflicting needs to shape end-to-end services.


