We are ideally placed for this activity as our personnel carry out daily reviews of advances in technology across the world  when populating the Idea Catalog.

• We have a structured  approach based on a combination of searches and filters in our Idea Catalog. Reviews are our ‘norm’! 

• We provide time limited access to the Idea Catalog and advise on technologies relevant to the focus of any company, any sector.  

We provide: 

• Preparation, Orientation and Processes - Clients are issued with a structured  orientation to facilitate access to the database.

• Tools -  

  • Idea Catalog  - This is a tool designed to showcase technologies that already exist. It is a series of technology catalogs that can be filtered and searched to avoid reinventing the wheel. It is known that 99.7% of all inventions are based on solutions that already exist. Understanding what already exists can therefore speed up development significantly; designers and innovators can take existing ideas and use, combine, extend or modify them to fit their own particular problem or challenge. 

• Triz (incorporated in the Idea Catalog) -  a Russian problem solving technique to develop genuinely innovative solutions to complex problems. We are able to translate some of the tools so they can be learnt and applied relatively easily.

• Training -

  • Problem Definition - to understand what the real problem is rather than what people think the problem is.

  • Technological Forecasting (TF) - a systematic process that aims to predict the precise form a technology will take, in a given application at sometime in the future. 

  • Patent Analysis - a of the techniques for Technological Forecasting (TF), used to evaluate advancement in technology and the rate and direction of technological development.

  • Trend Analysis -  to anticipate and understand the potential direction, rate, characteristics and effects of technological change.

  • Technology Transfer  -  the commercialisation of technology from one industry to another or the use of technology in a new sector that already exists in a different sector.