Accelerate Innovation

Accelerate Innovation with consultancy

The Inventive Step supports innovative actors in transforming ideas into products with tools and consultancy, providing guidance in the fuzzy front end of innovation. By being a pragmatic builder for ideas to become tangible. Parallel to that, The Inventive Step provides clarity in the complex field of intellectual property.

Innovation Management

Define and manage innovation projects. Lead multi-diciplinary teams towards succesfull deliveries. Motivate and inspire.

Product introduction

Innovation and launch strategy. Market validation, stakeholder analysis & trend analysis.

IP Management & Generation

Intellectual property (IP) license & portofolio management. Ideation and idea harvesting for IP generation. Intellectual property strategy.

Fundraising

Fundraising for innovation projects.

Project administration

Planning, Budgetting & Reporting.

Accelerate Innovation with product development

Hardware Development

Hardware development in various fields of technology.

Artificial intelligence

The Inventive Step adapts, combines, trains and modifies proven technologies for natural language processing (AI) and make them applicable for different field. The focus field for the comapny is complex and often hard to comprehend patent texts. The goal is to approach the human interpretation of text as closely as possible with a machine that can do it much faster.

In 2021 the company was granted the ‘MIT Haalbaarheid’ subsidy of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. After focusing on developing our core technology for almost a year, we are now researching its market potential. We are investigating: technological feasibility of different applications, ime-to-market, market potential and User Needs. These research proceedings will help us shape our first product, to be launched at the end of 2022: Invention Check. Part of this research is a survey with our potential end-users. If you are interested, please take some time to fill out the questionnaire below!

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Inventioncheck

The Inventive Step is developing state-of-the-art automation techniques for the processing of vast amounts of human language data, designed to read and understand worldwide patent content.

Our technology is focused on finding relationships between patents based on the descriptive meaning of words using actual linguistic interpretation. This more closely simulates how an actual human would analyze a patent. We train machine learning models, capable of identifying similarities between patent documents. With this technology we will develop user-friendly web-based applications that allow the user to obtain valuable insight into patent data in just a fraction of the time it would take a human to process documents by hand. Our technique could be used by innovative actors like: Inventors, Patent Attorneys, Patent Searchers, Patent Analysts, Business developers, Market researchers, Technology transfer officers, (scholarly) Researchers, IP consultants, etc..

Some examples of purposes our technique can be used for

Technology Exploration / R&D
Finding an answer to questions like:
- What are the trends in this technology area?
-Is this technology area a white or a black spot?
Scouting Licensing Opportunities
Finding an answer to questions like:
- Who are my potential partners?
- Who could be interested in licensing my patent?
Novelty Searches
Finding an answer to questions like:
- Is this invention patentable?
Freedom to Operate Searches
Finding an answer to questions like:
- Do I have freedom to operate?
- Is this third party right valid?
Market Exploration
Finding an answer to questions like:
- Who are my potential partners / suppliers?
- Who is active in this technology area?
- Who are my competitors?
- What is the development focus of my competitors?

‘Invention Check’ will be the first product we launch in 2022. Invention Check allows the inventive actor to find the closest patent documents to an invention. The results will be shown in an easy to comprehend way to the user. Our technique will make sure the analysis is done with high precision and without missing out on any relevant documents.

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