How would a competitive intelligence program complement our R&D and IP strategy in our organization.

Problem & Context: An American Food and Beverage company was in need of a global Competitive Technology Intelligence platform for informing its R&D scientists and also aligning management on emerging opportunities. Information on consumer trends, technology advancement, regulatory changes, packaging trends, health and nutrition was needed to develop innovation and growth strategies. The client team [...]

We are interested in having ongoing updates in a specific technology area of our interest and identify emerging trends

Problem & Context: An American food company, partnered with SciTech Patent Art to monitor and identify emerging technologies, products and business divestitures/ strategies of select companies. SciTech Patent Art Approach & Deliverables: A 2-member team of food technologists from SciTech Patent Art was assigned on a full-time basis to support the client team. A Competitive [...]

We are looking for ways to aggregate real time news from various sources and identify most relevant news that would be further published to a core group of interested readers

Problem & Context: An European food ingredients company partnered with SciTech Patent Art to set up a real time news feed alert to monitor specific companies and technologies on a daily basis. SciTech Patent Art Approach & Deliverables: A 2-member team of food technologists at SPA was formed to identify the list of news feed [...]

We would like to understand current state-of-the-art related to packaging of baked foods. This would help us strategize our technology development initiatives

Problem & Context: An European Food & Beverage company was interested in understanding current technologies and innovation space for packaging techniques for baked food products. SciTech Patent Art Approach & Deliverables: A team of Food technologists and packaging engineers at SciTech Patent Art were assigned the job. The team conducted a landscape search pertaining to [...]

We would like to know patenting activity for one of the technologies. We want to understand key technologies and companies evolving in this space

Problem & Context: An European company that develops and commercializes protein based beverages was interested in understanding the patent activity in plant-protein food and beverages. They wanted to know what are the technologies and applications along with companies filing for patents SciTech Patent Art Approach & Deliverables: SciTech Patent Art assigned this project to a [...]