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Patenting Accelerator Program

The Patenting Accelerator Program (PAP) will enable your Research & Development team to systematically identify concepts that can be patented successfully.

As part of the engagement, Innomantra assists the team in using the Functional Innovation (FI) approach to identify insights and to generate new product ideas. At various phases of the engagement Innomantra also provides the team with relevant patent and market research to help identify patenting opportunities and white spaces. The project duration ranges from 2 to 5 months depending on the scope and complexity of the engagement.

Background Study

Decomposition & Exploration

Ideation Sessions Evaluation

Invention Disclosure

Prior Art Research

Technology Landscape

Patent Filing

Patenting Accelerator Program: Engagement Model

Phase 0 Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4

Functional Innovation = Design Thinking + Systems Thinking

The Functional Innovation Methodology (FI) is an integrated approach to creative ideation

which brings together Design Thinking and Systems Thinking. The FI process involves the

following four steps: Decomposition, Exploration, Ideation and Implementation.

FI developed out of an Innomantra research study that involved analyzing more than 30,000

innovations. The FI approach has been used by several leading companies to innovate

systematically on their products and processes.

Functional Innovation Methodology: Process

Decomposition

Step

ImplementationExploration Ideation

1 Step Step3 Step4

User

System

FunctionalInnovation

How to? How about?

Design Thinking

Unidentified Needs

Empathy Confrontation

Systems Thinking

Unidentified Problems

Functional Innovation Methodology

Identified Needs

Identified Problems

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