Technology

Iprova’s technology enables the creation of inventions by identifying and connecting useful inventive signals from day-to-day social, market, and technological advances – even if they are very distant from the target invention area. Our technology is built on Iprova’s 10+ years of research into invention creation, which captures our experience of working with some of the world’s most innovative enterprises to create over 5,000 inventions.

Why Iprova?

Imagine if your company could capture changes across industries, technologies, markets and society in real-time and use these to create disruptive inventions that result in valuable new products and services. At Iprova, we achieve this by focusing on four key objectives:

Disruption

We create valuable inventions that span different domains, product ecosystems and experience journeys. These inventions help drive your company's top-line growth through disruptive new products protected by foundational patents.

Speed

Invention is a race where the winner takes all. By inventing faster, you gain a better chance of winning the race, and as a result filing patents with broader claims and greater intrinsic value.

Agility

Our digital, lean, approach means that the target invention area may be continuously updated to match the needs of fast-changing markets.

Reliability

We have turned invention into a robust, reliable and systematic activity that reflects the importance of the resulting intellectual assets and associated top-line business benefits.

Invention
service

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Iprova identifies high-value areas for invention based on points of market and technology disruption in the area in which you would like to invent. This may be based on a business strategy, product roadmap, experience journey or other more general target area definitions. Selected target areas can then be populated with inventions through an invention creation campaign.

During the invention campaign, Iprova delivers groups of inventions at two-week intervals, presented via face-to-face meetings or video calls throughout the campaign. You have full discretion to accept or reject inventions from the stream. Our partly contingent fee model, based on your acceptance of inventions we create, reflects our commitment and confidence in creating high-value inventions.

Software

Tried our invention services and want to scale up – or just want to use our software? Our latest version of Invention Studio provides the answer.

Invention Studio 3 is the latest release of our groundbreaking software, designed to augment human creativity and ingenuity. It features real-time advanced modelling for targeted invention areas and variable levels of AI assistance, depending on your needs. Whether you’re developing new product features, creating IP workarounds, or inventing for standards like 3GPP 5G, Invention Studio 3 provides the tools to efficiently capture, create and refine valuable inventions.

... Invention Studio extends the state-of-the-art for machine-enhanced creativity tools into the area of technical invention creation and, for the first time, truly makes invention an activity which is accessible throughout an organization.

Mohamad Ali Mahfouz
CTO Microsoft Switzerland

In-house
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Iprova's Data-driven Invention (DDI) Lab is an optional turnkey package that comprises everything you need to set up your own in-house DDI Lab including Invention Studio 3, processes, training and support. The DDI Lab is additive and complementary to your existing innovation ecosystem, providing the inventions you need to grow top-line revenues through innovative next generation products and services.

Iprova has demonstrated that their technology will enhance BIC’s approach to inventing products that solve the needs of our consumers. That’s why we decided to bring their technology in-house, strengthening BIC’s R&D capability and creating a stream of disruptive and diverse inventions that will help us stay ahead of ever-changing consumer demands.

Thomas Brette
Insights and Innovation Officer, BIC Group

10 out of 10 of the world’s largest technology companies reference granted patents based on our inventions.

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