At Milipol Paris 2025, Datenna is showcasing how open-source intelligence helps governments and analysts understand global innovation ecosystems and the evolving dynamics of China’s industrial and research landscape.
Published on Nov 18,2025 at 10:24 AM | Updated on Feb 26,2026 at 11:32 AM

Datenna has brought its open-source intelligence (OSINT) expertise to Milipol Paris 2025, with a dedicated workshop in the Innov’Arena today. The company’s OSINT platform transforms vast, fragmented data into actionable intelligence that helps governments and analysts better understand global technology ecosystems, including the rapid evolution of China’s industrial and research landscape.

By combining artificial intelligence with expert analysis, the platform allows users to trace technological developments from scientific publications and patents to industrial cooperation and investment activity. This comprehensive approach provides a clearer picture of how innovation flows across sectors and borders, offering valuable insights into areas of strategic importance such as defence technology, communications, and advanced manufacturing. In addition, the platform’s proprietary data architecture creates unique, structured datasets, allowing users to efficiently explore complex information layers to uncover hidden technology trends, trace innovation pathways, and identify potential technology transfers or other factors relevant to economic and national security.

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Understanding Global Technology Ecosystems

 

Trusted by several EU and NATO governments as well as leading defence and intelligence agencies and organisations around the world, Datenna provides unique insights into China’s technology development, military-civil fusion, and strategic technology transfers. Its proprietary platform covers more than 40 million companies, enabling users to map complex supply chains, ownership hierarchies, and institutional relationships.

Datenna’s expertise spans data science, technology policy, and national security. The company continues to invest in AI-driven analysis and data collection methods to refine its understanding of how global innovation networks evolve.

 

Revealing the Complexity of Technological Networks

 

Datenna’s Innov’Arena workshop explores how open-source data can reveal the complexity of modern technological ecosystems. Using a detailed case study on China’s drone industry, the session demonstrates how the company’s platform maps ownership structures, tracks research and innovation trends, and identifies emerging actors within a fast-moving field.

The analysis illustrates how public data, from company registries to patent filings and academic collaborations, can be combined to reveal the interconnections between industrial and research stakeholders. This approach allows analysts and policymakers to build a more complete picture of innovation pathways and assess how different players contribute to technological progress.

Rather than simply aggregating data, Datenna’s platform integrates advanced analytics to uncover meaningful connections across diverse technological fields. By leveraging multilingual sources and AI-driven pattern recognition, it helps users identify linkages across state-owned enterprises, private firms, and research institutions. This capability provides an evidence-based understanding of how technologies develop and diffuse across national and international boundaries, helping decision-makers evaluate both opportunities for collaboration and areas where supply chain transparency is essential.

Case Study: Mapping Innovation in Counter-UAV Technologies

 

As part of its ongoing research into technological ecosystems, Datenna has examined developments in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and counter-UAV technologies, areas that have become increasingly central to both European and global security strategies. In October, the European Commission proposed an expansion of Europe’s network of sensors, jammers, and defence systems throughout Eastern Europe. The Commission was also tasked with preparing the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030, which calls for increased defence budgets, stronger logistics, and improved readiness across member states. Among its key development priorities, the roadmap highlights investment in UAV and counter-UAV systems to meet the evolving demands of modern operational environments.

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In this context, counter-UAV methods, techniques, and equipment have gained significant importance as tools to protect assets, secure communication channels, and maintain situational awareness. Using its proprietary OSINT platform, Datenna conducted research into organisations contributing to these technological advances, demonstrating how open-source intelligence can shed light on complex industrial networks and innovation pathways.

Datenna identified an organisation registered as a private technology company active in electronics and communications. However, its public corporate and patent records showed engagement in radar, electronic warfare, and simulation technologies. Further open-source investigation linked the company to a major Chinese state-owned enterprise involved in advanced radar and defence technology.

The platform then revealed a broader network of related entities, subsidiaries, research institutes, and suppliers contributing to developments in radar systems, signal processing, and electronic countermeasures. Patent data indicated ongoing research in multi-target interference signal generation, radar simulation systems, and anti-jamming technologies. These findings were further contextualised through open procurement information, which provided insight into the company’s commercial relationships and technology applications.

By combining these open data sources, Datenna’s analysts were able to build a detailed understanding of the organisation’s technological focus, partnerships, and involvement in the broader innovation landscape. The case study demonstrates how open-source intelligence can help policymakers and researchers identify key actors, evaluate technological trajectories, and anticipate future developments all using transparent and publicly available data.

 

From Data to Decision-making

 

Beyond individual examples, Datenna’s approach highlights how OSINT contributes to strategic awareness and informed policymaking. The integration of data from corporate records, patents, tenders, and geospatial sources enables users to understand technological ecosystems in a comprehensive, evidence-based way.

For governments and international organisations, such intelligence supports better decision-making in areas such as innovation policy, supply chain monitoring, and research collaboration. It also helps anticipate emerging trends and ensures that investments in new technologies are guided by an accurate understanding of the global innovation landscape.

Datenna’s work underscores the growing importance of open-source intelligence as a neutral and transparent tool for analysing complex systems. By combining advanced data analytics with domain expertise, the company empowers decision-makers to navigate a rapidly changing technological environment.

As global innovation accelerates and technology continues to cross borders, OSINT will remain vital for building trust, fostering cooperation, and maintaining clarity in the international research and industrial ecosystem, a message at the core of Datenna’s presence at Milipol Paris 2025.

Visitors to Milipol Paris can discover more at Datenna’s stand or attend today’s Innov’Arena workshop.

Hall 5A / Stand B 195