Types of Collaboration that will increase the R&D Efficiency
“Not all smart people work for you.”~ Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems With an increased focus on innovation, every R&D manager wants to figure out a way to maximize research and development productivity. Well, collaboration is the smart move to up the innovation game but, is it as simple as it sounds?! Right […]
How can GreyB help you in getting the first mover advantage in research?
The early bird gets the worm. This adage is well-suited when we discuss the first mover advantage for companies that enter markets early and launch products well in advance. But, an early mover is not always the company that innovates first. It can also be the one that produces and markets the product before others […]
Cross-Industry Innovation – Accelerate Innovation in your Company
If I ask, “Are you aware that innovation can take your business to the next level in your domain?” You’d answer, “Obviously, Yes.” But, being aware of your business’s next plan and implementing that plan with the right strategy are two different things. This means innovating but in the correct way to gear up the […]
Case Study: How patent analytics enhanced the competitive analysis?
Intelligence today is about using the collective knowledge of the organisation to reach an advantageous position in industry” ~~ Stevan Dedijer, the Father of Business Intelligence Walmart launched its intelligent food system for produce in March 2018, and it must not have come as a surprise to other players if they had been tracking Walmart’s […]
Patent Landscape Study: Strategy against Tech Companies’ Invasion
About ten years ago, traditional watchmakers—companies like Tag Heuer, Swatch, and Timex—entered dangerous waters. Tech companies were preparing to introduce the modern smartwatch—a grave threat to the watchmakers’ bottom line. Of course, most companies are vulnerable to tech disruption. But the watchmakers’ position was especially precarious for another reason: They didn’t seem to have any […]
How can Technology Timeline help accelerate research in your R&D team?
Working closely with R&D teams of different organizations has been an insightful journey for us. One of the things that we have learned is that when an R&D team gets stuck in their research or competitive analysis it is mostly because of one of the below-mentioned reasons. If you relate to any of these reasons, […]
Automobile companies, here’s why you should start investing in 5G R&D right now.
If you are working in the automotive domain and not taking 5G seriously, you might find yourself in troubled waters a few years down the line. You know all about V2X Communication. You also know that 5G will make V2X easier, faster, and reliable. However, what you need to know is that the technology that […]
How to Identify Your Competitor’s Business Interest Areas at an Early Stage?
Do you spend hours in your mind palace, thinking where your competitor might be heading next? What could be their next area of interest? Do you have it covered or is it completely untapped? Well, if you are a technology scout you’d agree that it isn’t always about the hours you put in, but the […]
Research Opportunities in Medical Cannabis including Covid-19
After 3 stressful years of consulting dozens of medical professionals, being hospitalized more than 50 times, and missing a significant part of his fourth and fifth-grade school, 11-year-old Jackson Leyden received his first cannabis (CBD based) medication in 2014. Shortly after his 8th birthday in 2011, Jackson Leyden had started suffering from brief seizures, which […]
How We Designed an ROI-Maximizing Software Tool That Allows Every R&D Scientist to Operate Like a Patent Research Expert
Companies often assume that if they spend big on research and development, it’s only a matter of time before they see a big return on investment in the form of new products with high marketplace value, and/or intellectual property that can be patented and monetized. But in many cases, things don’t work out that way. […]
Tail-end countries are ripe for untapped market opportunities – Is your company protecting inventions there?
Ask anybody who has ever even thought about filing a patent application for their invention: In which country would you want to protect it? Most likely, their answer would be the US, or China — besides their native country, probably. In fact, statistically, we have had these two countries floating as the top markets for […]
How Competitive Landscape Analysis could lead to effective R&D Strategy?
How is Competitive Landscape helpful to researchers for creating an effective R&D strategy? To answer this question in its truest sense, we need to understand what competitive landscaping really is (and while we do that, it would be fun to shatter a few myths in the process). What is Competitive Landscaping? Competitive Landscaping is often construed […]
3 Scenarios that help in finding and closing the opportunity gaps in innovation
One of the key concepts of TRIZ theory is the Ideal Final Result or IFR or simply an ideal solution. Before we move ahead, let me explain what is an Ideal Final Result as the three scenarios I’m going to discuss that help in closing the research and innovation divide depend on IFR. What is […]
How innovation adoption from other industries can help you innovate in yours?
If Elon Musk, the then head of X.com, hadn’t had the foresight and the optimism in his competitor a few blocks away, we would not have known the present day Paypal as we do now. He had the vision to optimize banking transactions, and simultaneously he knew if they were to survive the dotcom bubble […]
Your competitor is watching your R&D investments, now what?
Running a business in today’s marketplace is much akin to a game of chess. Every move should be carefully plotted to beat the enemy in his own game so that you could emerge as a winner. But there are times when the opponent you are trying to defeat is the master of the game. With […]
