White Space Finding

Goal

To detect concrete opportunities for technology or product innovation that go a lot deeper than just an idea, and to detect business opportunities for your new technologies.

Audience and Participants

Typically, we work with the CTO, the CMO, head of R&D, head of Production, lead engineers, lead inventors, customer specialists. The customer role is for the CTO or CMO in general.

Approach

Using global patent data as our primary intelligence source, we analyse the specific terms companies in a given segment use—and what they leave unsaid. We examine mentions, omissions, surrounding context, dates, and other signals to identify potential white spaces: areas your competitors have left open.

Working with a group of your experts over several days and following a structured agenda, we will detect concrete opportunities for innovation, research and new product development. We can also identify companies to approach for sales, collaboration, or partnerships that may previously have been unknown to you.

The combination of our patent text-mining methods/tools and AI is particularly effective.

Result

An overview of detected opportunities, the background data in the form of queries and their results, terminology lists for future reuse, coloured Excel landscapes (matrices) that present at very detailed level the white and busy spaces.

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