Innovation Planning (Innovation Targetting)

1. Choice of a technical field
   • Qualification of inventor
     • Personal qualification
     • Personal know-how
     • Special knowledge of the market
   • Entrepreneurial qualification
2. Prior art search
   • Internet search: public databases of the patent offices, e.g. GPTO, EPO, USPTO
   • Industrial internet hosts
   • Ordered searches, e.g. LGA Nuremberg via Mainfränkische Patentinformations- und -recherchestelle in the TGZ Würzburg
3. Definition of the delimited field of the invention
   • Identification of technical disadvantages or technical niches
     • New method, new product
     • Improved method, improved product
   • Formulation of the object for development/invention
4. Elaboration of approaches to solution
   with preliminary critical examination of the approaches to solution
   • Novelty over the state of the art
   • Economic exploitability
     • Technical exploitability
     • Markets
     • Capital requirement
5. Elaboration of alternative approaches to solution
   (identification of circumvention solutions) with preliminary critical examination of circumvention solutions