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Deep tech
Specialist skills that exist in very few places and cannot be substituted or trained around.
What is different about this vertical
- The talent pool for a given specialism may be a few hundred people worldwide, so mobility is a binding constraint rather than an inconvenience.
- Publication and citation records often already satisfy several criteria.
- Academic-to-industry transitions raise specific questions about how prior institutional recognition transfers.
What that means for your process
Evidence collection begins at offer rather than at filing. The load-bearing items — publications, citation records, judging invitations, press about the individual — sit largely outside your organisation's control, which means they cannot be produced on demand and have to be gathered while the ordinary work continues.
Country of birth determines the queue. A plan that does not model it will be wrong for some of your people for reasons unrelated to merit.
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