IPMetrix: At the heart of TKM’s purpose
TKM Innovation was created in 2003, following several observations which have only increased since:
- With the advent of the Internet, access to information has become extremely easy.
- But as a corollary, the volume of information to analyze explodes.
- Monitoring must now be carried out on a global scale (technology, innovation, markets, competitors and partners)
- Scientific and technical fields are breaking down barriers: the number of themes to analyze is increasing, including those outside my usual areas of expertise.
At the same time, economic cycles are accelerating and companies must make decisions more and more quickly.
It is in this context that TKM, a specialist in technical information engineering, state of the art, monitoring and intellectual property strategies, has developed IPMetrix . Designed to analyze large packets of information, this software is capable of processing data from all available and useful sources on a global scale: patents, scientific publications, theses, research projects and more generally all the information available on the web. The analyzes that it allows to be carried out will feed into strategic decision-making processes linked to an innovation process.
TKM’s mission
- you make informed strategic decisions .
- Save you time in the analysis and sharing phases
- Provide you with a 360° vision of your markets, your competitors and opportunities
The 3 needs met by our IPMetrix monitoring software
In a massive and voluminous information processing sequence, IPMetrix was designed to meet 3 distinct needs encountered by its customers.
1. Free yourself from the heterogeneity of data sources
Scientific and technical information (patents, scientific articles, theses, collaborative projects, etc.), economic information, company databases, web articles, etc.
The first function of IPMetrix is to bring together information from a multitude of heterogeneous sources in a common format . Without this first brick, the analyst would be forced to carry out as many analyzes as there are data sources. Whereas with IPMetrix, it is possible to bring together all the useful information on a given subject, regardless of its source, its origin, its format or its language . Any duplicates are identified and eliminated.
You then access a common knowledge base, from which it will be possible to conduct a single strategic analysis.
2. Give meaning to a knowledge base
Who are the actors on the subject? What are the main themes and the actors who are interested in them? What are the trends, emerging technologies, their level of maturity? Who does what, with whom? Who are the experts, the opinion leaders to interview? Cutting-edge organizations, possible start-ups?
These are the kinds of questions that the analysis carried out by IPMetrix can answer. Semantic and statistical analyses, mapping, data visualization… You can even use it to identify new markets and your future customers.
The software provides a set of tools allowing the user to start building in a few hours a first level of intelligence on the area that interests them and that they are discovering . These analyzes built using IPMetrix make it possible to inform your monitoring and your decisions but also to detect much more creative and diversified avenues of innovation than during traditional work and not equipped with ideation tools.
3. Capitalize on and collaborate on your monitoring
Too often in companies, monitoring is carried out in a decentralized way: everyone works in their own corner. When one of its employees leaves, the company takes the risk of losing this knowledge which constitutes a real intangible asset that it has nevertheless financed.
In the best case, an Excel file remains with all this monitoring work carried out over the past years. Suffice it to say that this knowledge base is likely not to be exploited by successors and they will be condemned to start from scratch.
To avoid this pitfall, IPMetrix was designed to centralize all the information resulting from monitoring work , so that it is really possible to capitalize on it.
Real life example: Upon arrival in the company, the new director of industrial property of a large group has access from his dashboard to all the R&D projects undertaken by his new colleagues over the last 10 years! Enough to save an incredible amount of time and immediately nourish your discussions with the teams without wasting time on either side.
Marketing department, process team, purchasing department,... everyone can find an interest in it.
A collaborative tool, IPMetrix allows you to animate a mixed community around a common knowledge base . The various collaborators concerned can thus bounce back on this or that initiative, this product or this start-up profile, thanks to a system of tags and easy document sharing.
Thus, deploying IPMetrix not only makes it possible to promote collaboration in real time, but also to capitalize on an intangible asset that will last well beyond the trajectory of the various employees within the company.
4 examples of use cases where the use of IPMetrix will make a difference
- Technological monitoring of a given sector . To know everything that is happening in your environment, what your competitors are doing or even know the trends in a given area.
- State of the art . To stay up to date on the state and progress of technologies and their maturity, know the players behind them, identify potential partners or competitors.
- Industrial property . To monitor the patent filing strategy of its competitors, conduct a prior art search , identify troublesome patent applications in time and try to weaken them within the allotted time.
- Market study . To identify a relevant market for a given technology, for example as part of a technology transfer or the launch of an innovative product. For a start-up resulting from research work, IPMetrix allows you to obtain a 360° panorama of all the markets likely to be interested in its technology. So before analyzing the receptivity of a particular market, project leaders have a strategic map of the needs that they could satisfy, and carry out an initial targeting with very surprising results in relation to their starting idea. This allows them not to make mistakes and to control a crucial factor for a start-up: its time to market (Time to Market).
As an expert in your field, you know that the key to your success lies in your ability to innovate. To reduce your uncertainties, you need reliable and objective data. The IPMetrix analysis and capitalization tool coupled with TKM's expertise will help you have a detailed vision of your technological and competitive environment, so that you make the right decisions . A real aid to informed decision-making, TKM, in addition to offering you IPMetrix, can in fact take care of all the laborious tasks inherent to monitoring, so that your employees can fully devote themselves to their area of expertise.
