Technology Scouting and the Innovation Challenge: Big Data Scouting for Meeting the Demands of Protein Enriched Foods
Ingredients Innovation Discovery
Large Food Manufacturer Looks to Uncover New Technology with Protein-enriched Foods Capturing the Benefits of Gelatin and Collagen.
The Protein Challenge. The project starts with system to run the innovation challenge. In comes Ezassi’s Innovation Software, providing a platform to create and run “The Protein Challenge.”
Scroll and read further for the prologue leading up to the business case success.
View the targeted innovation communities.
The software provides the capability to house unlimited innovation and communication communities. Each community is member-based. As a user, you will only see communities for which you are a member.
Engaging in ideation through multiple channels = innovation communities.
The challenge is developed and we’ve worked with the client to identify the ideation audience. In this instance, they are looking for ideas from internal and external sources, including:
- Employees
- Ingredient Experts
- Healthy Ingredient Experts
- Ingredient Suppliers
What's in a Community?
WHERE CROWDSOURCING HAPPENS.
See what happens inside a community. Users can view challenges and explore or participate in the challenges; view announcements specific to the community; and view material.
Once users are inside a community, there is limitless engagement that happens to promote innovation.
Demand Generation
Potential solvers are invited to participate and engage through multiple engagement channels, including email, social media outreach, affiliate marketing and targeted advertising.
Mining more than 350 million data sources
The data Technology Landscaping analyzes and dives deeply into includes:
- 19,908,388 source documents
- 31,350,295 experts
- 2,349,899 organizations
- 224,570,134 topics
In less than 30 Seconds
The data is revealed…
The Technology Landscaping user, the “scout,” can obtain – in less than 30 seconds – real-time query results that might otherwise take days or weeks to find…if found at all. Queries can be further refined, drilled-down into for deeper analysis or used to surface a broader universe of innovations and ideas the company may not have even known existed.
Big Data Scouting
Using Ezassi’s proprietary scouting automation software, Technology Landscaping, the initial search begins. An preliminary 10,000 foot view to begin looking at advancements in protein-enriched foods.
The initial query for protein-enriched food technology suggests and shows…
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Suggested Results Cluster and Source Breakdown
The honeycombed suggested search term identifies keyword adjacencies and inspirations around the technology space. The search can be further refined or noted for completely new queries.
Emerging Technology Findings
Technology Landscaping confirms that this is an steady-growing emerging technology topic over the past 8 years, as evidenced by sources produced in 2010 to today in 2018.
Technology Landscaping further reveals that this topic is currently dominated by small companies and startups, having moved out of the academia space.
The Drill-Down Reveal
Narrowing the technology landscape by adding “collagen” shows an emerging difference…
Technology Scouting takes the challenge a step further into discovery. Narrowing the 10,000 foot view, to focus in on collagen related solutions paints a different picture as far as what’s emerging.
What happens next?
Solutions are identified. | Patent inventors are crowdsourced and invited to participate. | Ideas are captured.
Ideas Captured from Discovered Patent Inventors
Ideas were captured previously through getting the word out to the internal and external sources know. Once the Big Data Scouting was implemented, the system allows for outreach and capturing ideas from discovered expert solvers.
In this instance, patent inventors were the desired target.
Idea Capture from Internal, External, Scouting Experts
15 targeted emerging technology patent solutions in the protein-enriched food space, with a focus on benefits of gelatin and collagen.
All in a Day’s Work
Big Data Scouting analysis performed in one day, with narrowed technology focus vs. weeks of research and analysis.
Idea Detail
Go-Forward Application
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