Innovation Research

The adoption of 5G will propel the whole range of disruptive technologies, including AI, IoT, and robotics. With 5G bringing so much possibility in almost every domain, one must think – [...]

Walmart, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer, has been pushing the envelope for becoming a tech-centric company from being a traditional retailer. It has shifted its focus and [...]

How would you know about a startup or a new player about which there is too little or nothing written on the internet? It won’t appear on Bloomberg or Crunchbase. And, you cannot miss it being in [...]

About ten years ago, traditional watchmakers—companies like Tag Heuer, Swatch, and Timex—entered dangerous waters. Tech companies were preparing to introduce the modern smartwatch—a grave threat [...]

Microsoft acquired the game developer Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion and cited the metaverse as a reason for acquiring it. Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has also bet on the [...]

The global market for alt-protein is expected to exceed $155 billion by 2027. Environmental concerns and animal welfare are some reasons for consumers’ growing awareness of alternative proteins [...]

The transportation industry accounts for roughly 21% of the global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and a lion’s share of these emissions is from road-based transportation, roughly amounting to 75% [...]

Automotive Tire Market is expected to reach USD 170 billion with a CAGR of 5.6% by forecast 2027. Tire consumption is rising exponentially, owing to the increasing demand for vehicle production [...]

“To do more for the world than the world does for you. That is success” – Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company Founder. Today, flying cars are exactly what cars were in the 1900s, massively in [...]

The EV market is basically created by the countries’ governments. The government-provided incentives are currently boosting the top electric vehicle companies to step up their innovation game. In [...]

Electric Vehicles are finally seeing the light of the day. The industry has been coming through and companies and startups have been innovating to overcome all the hindrances such as the battery, [...]

Harvesting seaweed responsibly has the potential to address some of the world’s biggest sustainable development challenges through nature-based solutions. Owing to its favorable characteristics [...]

Decades ago, green or sustainable coatings were termed eco-friendly coatings that emit almost negligible volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the production process. But now this definition [...]

In recent news, a woman with HIV in the United States may be the first female and third person to have been “cured” of HIV through stem cell transplants. After stem cell therapy, the woman’s HIV [...]

The complexity of the cell therapy products and patient-specific variability, product quality, and consistency are significant challenges in the Cell Therapy domain. Cell Therapy Startups with [...]

Despite the EV industry rapidly growing for more than a decade, it still has some areas of improvement. Companies are constantly innovating in these areas so that a reliable EV experience can be [...]

“By 2050, global hydrogen demand could grow sixfold, and provide 10% of the global energy consumption.” – International Energy Agency Green hydrogen is a rescue from the CO2-producing [...]

The Quantum Computing field has come a long way since quantum computers were conceived by Richard Feynman. Although the field is still in its infancy, with its long-term promise, it remains one [...]

Note: The article was first published on Nov 11, 2020. It has recently been updated on Mar 16, 2022. In our previous article, we talked about the 5G chipset market. In this article, we will [...]

“The global electric vehicle charging station market size is projected to grow from 2,354 thousand units in 2022 to 14,623 thousand units by 2027, at a CAGR of 44.1%.” In the previous post, we [...]

With research in the Electric Vehicle domain ongoing for more than a decade, a number of companies are now standing as competitors to Tesla. But, at the moment it seems that ‘Tesla’ has become [...]

Whether it’s searching for photographs of loved ones or someone you don’t even know about. AI is revolutionizing the world. Breaking down language barriers via Google Translate, composing [...]

The study was first published on Feb 24, 2018, and then updated on Feb 18, 2019, Feb 13, 2020, Feb 4, 2021, and recently on Feb 18, 2022. Back in 1994, Jeff Bezos was stunned after discovering [...]

This is the third article in our 4-part Edge Computing Market Research Series. In this article, we will discuss the top companies working on edge computing based on their research activities, [...]

A packaging startup has developed an edible material that presents nutritional values ​​and meets zero waste objectives for instant food products that are easy to use and consume. And another [...]

AOBiome is researching a beneficial bacteria which is used to treat skin diseases such as acne and psoriasis.  Codex Beauty filed a patent that talks about a natural composition that when [...]

EQRx and Exscientia also team up on a discovery-through-commercialization to bring cheaper medicines to patients faster. As part of the deal, Exscientia will pick up discovery duties while EQRx [...]

Arla Foods recently announced a groundbreaking technology that holds the potential to revolutionize innovation for dairy. This technology can separate milk into its different protein components [...]

Even though Covid has wreaked havoc in major consumer goods markets, the cosmetic industry stood strong through the shakes, with minimal effect on revenues. Some blows were seen when lots of [...]

In the past two months, we set on a journey to uncover all there is to know about Quantum computing. Starting from the market to industries, exploring how companies from different industries are [...]

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) market is witnessing explosive evolution. Not only in the tech-driven industries but also in the new lines of business and in the homes of consumers. As demand [...]

Everyone knows PET is completely recyclable, right? But you and I both know it isn’t as simple as it sounds. PET recycling comes with its own set of cleaning and sorting needs. As a result, [...]

The original plan was to deep dive into the last 10 years of Amazon’s patent portfolio to dissect the brain behind the Amazon think tank. Figure out its secret future projects.  Projects [...]

We all are familiar with the frustration of beating the sauce out of the bottle as the last of it sticks to the bottle. Well, the new packaging trends might finally be our rescue force. “People [...]

The previous article laid ground to explain the stakeholders in the Healthcare domain and how 5G is affecting each of them. Moving forward we answer a question every business head (you too?) have [...]

This is the second part of our 4 part series on Quantum Computing. The first one discusses the growing market of quantum computing. Considering the growth drivers and opportunities, we can deduce [...]

Thermal Processing has been the traditional decontamination method for years to ensure food safety. However, recent years have witnessed the use of UV lights to improve food life and eliminate [...]

Authored By: Shivam Kansra, Prior art team.

This strategy teardown compiles the ideas, innovations, technological research, partnerships, and most importantly the strategies that are responsible for Apple to grow to such heights.  However, [...]

BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) new report estimates EVs and other zero-emissions vehicles to account for 70 percent of new-vehicle sales by 2040, up from 4 percent in 2020 — Electric cars have [...]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been disrupting many industries for the past decade. With the rise of data and powerful hardware, AI has changed the world to a great extent and the peak is yet [...]

The Vaping Industry is set on its way to progress both in terms of popularity and market capitalization. In fact, according to a report, the global e-cigarette and vape market – which was valued [...]

5G in healthcare is quickly becoming one of the most talked-about trends across industries, wouldn’t you say? And it’s not only because it’s projected to be used in everything from [...]

“Simulating the behavior of 100 billion neurons of the human brain is not feasible by classical computers but quantum machine learning promises to fulfill that requirement.” Quantum computing was [...]

Almost every business across all the industries including, Manufacturing & Industrial Automation, Robotics & Automation, and Healthcare Technology is inducting the Internet of Things [...]

In November 2018, Amazon announced its launch of inferentia chip during its re: Invent conference. And like any other Amazon innovation, this one too had us all hooked. What is so special about [...]

The automotive industry is shifting gear as a broader definition of mobility takes hold. –McKinsey Report The autonomous vehicle industry is the new Silicon Valley-BLACK. Top VCs are [...]

Are you a cloud solutions provider who is currently trying to deploy 5G services at the edge? If yes, have you been participating in the 3GPP standardization process?  If you answered in negative [...]

If you were to stop a random person on street and ask them if they have heard about Disney and Netflix, chances are they would nod in affirmative. The former is an almost century-old brand whose [...]

The world of 6G will be one of abundance. By the time 6G matures in 2030, the way we communicate with each other could change drastically, incorporating everything from holograms to virtual [...]

With the growth of V2X technology, the much-awaited future of our transportation system is approaching sooner than anticipated. The V2X tech – valued at USD 689 Million in 2020 – is predicted to [...]

We have come down to the final part of our 3-Part V2X Communication series. In the previous parts, we talked about the V2X market both in terms of C-V2X and WLAN-V2X and why the majority of [...]

According to a study, around 65% of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose. This means a majority of people cannot consume most dairy products. However, it’s also true that [...]

Have you been busy building fantastic games and are unaware of all the recent happenings in the industry? By recent happenings, I mean the increased involvement of telecom companies in the cloud [...]

“In Europe, 85% of consumers under a survey perceived hair-care as important or very important to their daily lives” – Consumer Insights 2017, published by Cosmetics Europe, the Personal [...]

This is the second part of our 3-part V2X series. But before we go ahead, let’s take a quick recap. In the first part, we talked about how V2X communication is going to change the world for good. [...]

As the world swiftly moves towards adopting autonomous and Electric vehicles, the tire industry – which is one of the most important components that drive these changes – is still [...]

On average, there are 6 million car accidents in the U.S. every year, with Massachusetts holding the top spot for the highest percentage of drivers with a prior at-fault accident. That’s [...]

This is the final part of our 4-part IoT Series. Previously, we talked about 5 Leading IoT Companies and their position on the IoT Value chain, looked at some of the major happenings in IoT in [...]

In the early 2000s, companies with business models entwined with the internet saw their stock prices collapse. As a result, businesses and students started to believe that the computer industry [...]

Autonomous Vehicle Leaders Navigant Research releases a leaderboard every year on autonomous vehicles. This year it released its leaderboard again that comprises the following companies to be at [...]

Consumers today expect additional benefits beyond basic nutritional supplements in their food. Something that stands out as a special type of matrix to facilitate probiotic health benefits. But [...]

This is the fourth and final part of our Edge Computing Market Research Series. In this article, we will discuss the top startups researching and working in edge computing technology. In the [...]

After Smartwatches, Smart Glasses are considered to be the next major development in wearables that will enter into our daily lives. Many startups and major tech players are trying to create [...]

This is the second article of our 4-part Edge Computing Market Research Series. In this article, we will talk about the major technical challenges of Edge computing and the solutions provided by [...]

“Organizations that have embarked on a digital business journey have realized that a more decentralized approach is required to address digital business infrastructure requirements. As the volume [...]

If you are a high-level executive working in the automobile industry, you would quip – “The times are tough”. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the industry hard. Every company is holding onto its [...]

Touted as “The Tesla of China”, NIO is a fast-growing Chinese automaker that designs and manufactures Smart High-Performance Electric Vehicles.   Founded in 2014, the Shanghai-based company went [...]

A year ago, in 2020, we published our take on the state of 5G and why automotive industries should be investing in 5G unless they want to find themselves in hot water. Gladly, a year later, [...]

Did you know that tech companies like Apple, IBM, Intel and Qualcomm are filing patents in the tire domain?

As per the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2019, Singapore is ranked second in the world and top in Asia for having the best IP protection. This is pretty impressive as the [...]

Being a research company, we love exploring technology trends and digging up insights related to those technologies, and lately, we have been fascinated with telecom technologies, and in [...]

This report is an update to the report titled “Exploration of 5G Standards and Preliminary Findings on Essentiality” published May 26, 2020. This report covers more than 700 technical [...]

Did you know that cellulose is the best raw material to eliminate plastic? Even better, it is the most abundant naturally occurring resource on Earth with more than 180 billion tons being [...]

Plastic packaging is doing to our planet what cancer does to an organism’s body. The roots of waste caused by plastic are reaching almost every corner of our planet. Be it the deepest and darkest [...]

“The Internet of Things is transforming the everyday physical objects that surround us into an ecosystem of information that will enrich our lives. From refrigerators to parking spaces to houses, [...]

In our AV report, we talked about the 30 autonomous vehicle companies researching self-driving technologies. And most of these companies are competing for providing a single service, i.e. [...]

“In some ways, Technology transformation can be a little confusing”, I thought to myself as I sat writing this article.  Why’s that? you ask. Well, to many of us transformation can implicate [...]

As the rollout of 5G is pacing up across the world, the buzz of 6G has also started. Given that the world has just witnessed the launch of 5G, it’s obvious that 6G will take ~10 years to become [...]

The beauty industry is expected to reach a valuation of $863 billion globally by 2024. However, given the continuous innovation and exponential growth in beauty products, a saturation in the [...]

Working closely with R&D teams of different organizations has been an insightful journey for us. One of the things that we have learned is that when an R&D team gets stuck in their [...]

The autonomous or self-driving industry is witnessing a lot of innovation by startups. Despite big automakers and technology companies involved in the industry, it is the startups coming up with [...]

The future of connected things, which seemed a little sci-fi just a few years ago, is now right at our doorsteps. Gadgets for smart homes, connected cars, industrial sensors that share data every [...]

How do you like your tea? With cream? Sugar? Or the classic, plastic. That’s right, environmentally detrimental glue and plastic. Allow me to spill the tea. Tea lovers sing many a praise of those [...]

The consumers of landscape studies are broad, ranging from business executives to university management, and from IP counsels to R&D teams. Further, they all have their own set of [...]

If you are working in the automotive domain and not taking 5G seriously, you might find yourself in troubled waters a few years down the line. You know all about V2X Communication. You also know [...]

What if I tell you I can help you predict the future? Most people might come to you and say that analytics can help you achieve exactly that. Reality is – it cannot. Where we are right now [...]

The domain of 3D printing has been in headlines recently since the news emerged that companies are 3D printing the medical equipment including ventilators and PPE kits to deal with the COVID-19 [...]

Do you spend hours in your mind palace, thinking where your competitor might be heading next? What could be their next area of interest? Do you have it covered or is it completely untapped? Well, [...]

“RoC has a rich history of skincare solutions innovation stemming from its French pharmacy roots. As the first brand to stabilize Retinol, which is one of the top U.S. [...]

On Apr 28, 2020, InterDigital entered a worldwide patent licensing agreement with Huawei Technologies Ltd, and also settled all litigation against each other. The licensing agreement runs through [...]

“Britain is leading the charge among its European counterparts when it comes to embracing the digital transformation of healthcare. From nimble start-ups to the evolution of the National Health [...]

After 3 stressful years of consulting dozens of medical professionals, being hospitalized more than 50 times, and missing a significant part of his fourth and fifth-grade school, 11-year-old [...]

The responsibilities of a CTO are multifold – Monitoring technological trends, designing a strategy that aligns with those trends in the most profitable way, and identifying new areas to invest [...]

Heard of the Boy Scout-turned-entrepreneur who 3D printed numerous ear-guards for the healthcare workers on the front lines? Well, the phrase “Necessity is the mother of invention” holds as a [...]

Revolutionary innovations can occur anywhere – Be it in a basement, a garage, or just over a cup of coffee. Resultantly, there is a constant rise in startups and small-scale industries all around [...]

Twitter’s strategy to make its platform more engaging and less spam turned out to be great. And the company is not just thriving but has great user growth and along with it is what every company [...]

Xiaomi has been surprising the consumer electronics industry with its innovative and affordable products since its inception. Founded in 2010, the startup quickly became a smartphone leader in [...]

In the previous article, we talked about the research of Fujifilm in the skincare domain. While it’s a surprise for the skincare players, it could have been anticipated by analyzing the earlier [...]

Did we tell you about that one photographic film company that made an annual sale of over 10 billion yen in 2010 by selling skincare products? One, which can be very easily overlooked by major [...]

Editor’s Note: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (a leading US patent law firm) and GreyB Services collaborated to help you understand what kind of research trends 12 fast-growing tech [...]

A study conducted by NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business revealed that in over 90% of the individual product categories, the sustainability-marketed products outperformed their [...]

With the exponential improvement in innovations in the communications domain, the cars of today are becoming increasingly connected – both with each other and the environment. V2X, which [...]

Since time immemorial, great companies have become great by hiring the right people. A rookie might wonder why. But seasoned players understand that it is your people who decide your reputation [...]

It is alarming, the unending increase in convenience that technology is providing to humankind.  To such an extent that it has advanced towards saving lives. Technology has rooted itself in every [...]

Jeff, a senior researcher at one of the largest chemical companies in the US, had been shouldering the burden of a problem, which if solved could help an industry worth $43 Billion. Jeff was [...]

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a widely used material in packaging, especially food packaging. Derived from renewable sources like cornstarch, cassava roots, chips, starch, and sugarcane, this [...]

Genome editing or gene editing tools bring along with them a promise for a better future as they give scientists the ability to alter DNA. Further, as a result of the growing use of technologies [...]

The Industrial IoT technology is still in its infancy, but according to research reports, its market is expected to reach $105 billion by 2025 with a 7% CAGR. Industrial IoT, otherwise known as [...]

Smart Speakers have become quite the household commodity nowadays. Recently, I was working on a research study related to smart speakers, as a result of which I got to know a good deal about [...]

Contributors – Priya Vashishth, Sushant Kumar, and Shikhar Sahni

Imagine a doctor who knows and understands all the recent advancements in medicine, who has access to millions of patient records and the kind of treatment that worked for them, and who can bring [...]

The United States has been grappling with pain management drugs that contain opioids for quite a while. Multiple studies and court rulings indicate opioids in these drugs make millions addicted. [...]

Companies often assume that if they spend big on research and development, it’s only a matter of time before they see a big return on investment in the form of new products with high marketplace [...]

Ask anybody who has ever even thought about filing a patent application for their invention: In which country would you want to protect it? Most likely, their answer would be the US, or China — [...]

5G – Is it truly disruptive or just a few Mbps faster than the current network? After a while lost in bringing life to the idea that existed only in theory years ago, 5G is finally here! [...]

To leverage external smarts, P&G launched its Connect and Develop (C+D) program in 2002. The C+D website later (www.pgconnectdevelop.com) became the binder for innovators, scientists, [...]

The cannabis industry, over the period, has dramatically adopted the minimalist mantra in the form of ‘microdosing’, aka infusing a very small amount of cannabis into various kinds of products [...]

LiFi right after its public disclosure took the world by storm. The new communication method claimed to use LEDs instead of dongles or antenna devices to provide internet access and data transfer [...]

Are you looking for a simple approach to prioritizing your innovation efforts? Does your company tend to assign priority to ongoing innovation tasks because it has already invested time and money [...]

In 2018, we witnessed a dramatic rise in AI-based platforms, tools, and applications. One reason is that the big players from multiple domains like Google, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Facebook, Microsoft, [...]

What are the research trends our industry is following? Which competitor is building what kind of technical expertise? Are these among some of the questions that you want to get answered? Patent [...]

  If you read Lean Startup by Eric Ries, one topic you’ll find difficult to comprehend is of Innovative Accounting.  The reason of incomprehensibility and importance of the term has been [...]

A survey was conducted by Innovation Leader on more than 25 innovation, R&D, corporate development, and strategy executives from $1+ billion companies. The report, Best Practices: Scouting [...]

How is Competitive Landscape helpful to researchers for creating an effective R&D strategy? To answer this question in its truest sense, we need to understand what competitive landscaping [...]

When solving a problem here at NorthStar, we often organize brainstorming sessions involving dozens of people to become idea machine guns. The generation of a huge heap of ideas, not [...]

Blockchain, with its emergence, has brought companies of several domains on their doors and one of those domains is telecommunications. As communication service providers are openly accepting the [...]

There is a lot of research and implementation going on to provide solutions for the telecom industry using Blockchain technology. This study could give you an idea about the level of intensity in [...]

A Deloitte survey – in which the company interviewed 1000 M&A executives of top US companies and private equity firms – reveals that 79% of executives at corporations, and 87% of M&A [...]

Questions to Answer If you could, would you like to predict the future? Yes?! Okay, let’s take this question a step further. Imagine you are at a C-level executive in your company. There are [...]

In the last article, we discussed the culture at DARPA that makes sure the agency funds or works at world-changing ideas. If you haven’t gone through the article yet, you must as it has [...]

Earlier, we discussed how DARPA makes sure that it indulges in breakthrough innovation and not in the incremental one, and the different processes DARPA follows to create and manage breakthrough [...]

Internet, Stealth Aircraft, artificial limbs, a flat screen display are all the inventions that are children of DARPA. Time and again, if there is one organization that never settled for [...]

If you are leading business and are responsible for its growth you might always be thinking about – What’s next? This ‘what’s next?’ is majorly about futuristic technologies for more than 80% of [...]

Every business wants to innovate but a will alone isn’t enough. During a survey by Accenture, 96% of executive agreed that their long-term success depends on developing new ideas. However, only a [...]

When confronted with the problem of supplying enormous solar panels into space, NASA engineers found the solution in ancient Japanese art of paper folding – origami. Be it supplying large [...]

A wise person once said – Be wary of the startups launching in your industry. What sounds like an interesting idea with a small team working on it today can give all the giants a run for [...]

One of the key concepts of TRIZ theory is the Ideal Final Result or IFR or simply an ideal solution. Before we move ahead, let me explain what is an Ideal Final Result as the three scenarios [...]

Almost every day, we see some company, a giant, specializing in its own domain, stuck in a bit of a pickle. The pickle could be some trouble with its research, its product optimization or any [...]

Did you know that LiFi can transfer data at speeds up to 224 Gbps? The sad fact is, the technology is still in the development phase and it’s going to be a while before it reaches our [...]

Back in 2002, P&G was contemplating ideas to make its Pringles Potato Crisps more interesting and innovative. In the brainstorming session, someone shared an idea of printing pop culture [...]

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural? – Bill Hicks (American stand-up [...]

Morphological analysis is simply an ordered way of looking at things. ~Fritz Zwicky Morphological analysis is invented by Fritz Zwicky, a Swedish astrophysicist who used the morphological [...]

Creativity and innovation! Many people get confused with a fact that these two terms are independently correlated with one another. Creativity is the generation of ingenious ideas whereas [...]

If I ask you – “Do you want to innovate?” You’d answer, “Obviously, Yes.” Wait a moment though. Willingness alone is not going to help you innovate. You would also need a tried and tested method [...]

If Elon Musk, the then head of X.com, hadn’t had the foresight and the optimism in his competitor a few blocks away, we would not have known the present day Paypal as we do now. He had the vision [...]

Do you know in 2008, an invention by a five-year-old on “Sweeping device with two heads” got patented? Some may consider this a shot in the dark, others may simply admit: an idea doesn’t need the [...]

It has remained a debatable topic whether innovation is driven by breakthrough technology or by customer needs. Whatever is the result of the debate, businesses can’t ignore customer needs. [...]

“I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.” -Bill Gates Here comes an important question – Where to direct the research [...]

Majority of the researchers will agree that research is mostly driven by Curiosity: Curiosity to find something new, to develop something new.  And for this, researchers often look for hints that [...]

In recent months, the legal Cannabis market has emerged as a hot topic of discussion among technology enthusiasts, as the market is emerging post-haste as more and more governments are legalizing [...]

Before Ford’s Model T was introduced in 1908, the 500 automakers in America were building customized Novelty cars only. Even though numerous automakers were there, the automobile industry was [...]

Innovation starts by brainstorming, and by coming up with creative ideas and implementing them in your product/service to make it better than before. But, brainstorming does not always guarantee [...]

The early bird gets the worm. This adage is true for companies that enter markets early and launch products well in advance. An early mover is not always the company that innovates first. It can [...]

“I’m in the weed-growing business. And cousin, business is a ’boomin!”                                                                                        …

“Not all smart people work for you.” ~ Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems With an increased focus on innovation, every R&D manager wants to figure out a way to maximize research and [...]

Bitcoin took a wild ride in 2017, going all the way from about $1,000 back in January to $19,000 at one point in December. A lot of the virtual currency’s activity was driven by individuals and [...]

There’s a way to do it better – find it. – Thomas Edison Are you at a managerial level where you want to create extraordinary collaborations among your R&D teams, analyze the market and [...]

Things happen fairly slowly, you know. They do. These waves of technology, you can see them way before they happen, and you just have to choose wisely which ones you’re going to surf. If you [...]

  Your R&D team should research but where it actually spends a lot of its time on is gathering information. Let’s begin our brief session together with a simple question: How often you [...]

  Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. -Tom Freston What is Heuristic Ideation Technique? According to psychologists, ideas are simply a [...]

Can creativity be taught or is it an inherent trait? Can creativity be learned and measured? Can creativity be improved over time and become better at? Well, despite all the myths about how the [...]

Do you know that there is a technology that lets you generate energy from the sun even when the sky is cloudy or when it is raining? Our fossil fuel sources are depleting at supersonic speed. [...]

An energy recovering mechanism, introduced in the early 1900s, Regenerative brakes, differ highly from their counterpart conventional brakes, as when applied, the kinetic energy is converted into [...]

Imagine – You are in the middle of a very important telephonic conversation – maybe with a friend, or a potential investor, or business partner – pitching your breakthrough million-dollar idea [...]

Thermal runaway is a long standing problem that has bugged large corporations like Tesla, Samsung, and Boeing and small alike. Boeing’s Dreamliner 787, which Boeing advertised as 20% fuel [...]

LiFi technology has been in the public eye since Prof. Harald Haas first introduced it to the world in his Ted talk in August of 2011. LiFi uses characteristics like intensity, and the frequency [...]

We have tried to describe a problem-solution approach through this case study so that we can convey the advantages of such an approach. An exemplary technology has been used to convey how a [...]

This case study would be very interesting for you if you are part of Steel industry. The researcher name, technology, and suggestions have been changed to maintain confidentiality but retain the [...]

Note – The technology and client name have been modified to maintain confidentiality. Peter, a senior R&D manager at one of the fortune 500 companies were researching in the domain of [...]

The galvannealed coatings possess two most important qualities: Corrosion protection and High Surface quality, which makes them irreplaceable in numerous automotive applications, construction [...]

If you are not innovating, you are planning your exit. Paul Perreault, CEO, CSL Ltd. We live in an era of stifling competition where the only factor that sets apart the top players from the rest [...]

Solar power is widely known for rooftop photovoltaic solar stations which consist of huge solar panels and other components, but nowadays solar power can be collected and used in many different [...]

Do you also think – how companies like Microsoft and Coca-Cola are superior in their domain? Microsoft dominates the industry in computer operating systems and Coca-Cola in beverages and [...]

If you are leading a business and are responsible for its growth you might always be thinking – What’s next? This ‘what’s next?’ is majorly about futuristic technologies for more than 80% of the [...]

Running a business in today’s marketplace is much akin to a game of chess. Every move should be carefully plotted to beat the enemy in his own game so that you could emerge as a winner. But there [...]

3D Metal printing powders need to have different properties for different applications such as particle shape and size, good flow, low oxygen content, and high oxidation resistance. Some of these [...]

In the last article of this 3D metal printing powder study, we discussed the top three highly researched 3D printing metal powders. In this installment, we will discuss the top three highly [...]

The new fuel nozzle of GE’s Leap jet engine is one monolithic piece that is manufactured by spraying fine alloy powder in a printer where it’s then heated using a laser. The process is then [...]

This article is a part of our in-depth technology landscape analysis on solar cells (specifically about nano-photovoltaic solar cells). For your ease, we have divided the entire analysis into 4 [...]

In our last post, we discussed the five breakthroughs in the propulsion system. In the current post, we will walk you through four new ground-breaking technologies that will take the air [...]

Earth receives enough sunlight to generate around 52 Petawatt/hr of energy. To give you an idea, China’s entire electricity production in 2013 was 5.21 Petawatt/hr which is equal to 10% of what [...]

Since 1903 when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed the idea of space exploration, and Dr. Robert Goddard made a rocket fly using liquid propellant on March 16, 1926, we’ve witnessed tremendous [...]

In the next 40 years, all of our non-renewable energy resources will disappear if we keep exploiting them at the current pace. Stats like this shifted our focus on finding alternative renewable [...]

The push to develop solar cells with higher efficiency and lower manufacturing cost has never been more urgent than today when the climate changes are escalating. The Sun in an hour provides [...]

In our last post of the LiFi series, we learned how LiFi Technology evolved in the past few years. We also learned how the companies are trying to make LiFi a household name. In this article, we [...]

A tall gentleman is standing at the center of the stage. All eyes in the audience are glued to him. The audience is in a state of confusion and is skeptical after what he announced. The hall is [...]

The success of an organization depends on multiple factors. While strategy, human resources, and company culture form the recipe of success, other ingredients are also needed to take an [...]

In the last decade, we have seen a rapid advancement in the digital oil field. This facilitated improved remote operations, accurate geophysical estimation, use of new drilling techniques, [...]

Having a sound patent strategy is as crucial as having a well-planned business strategy for a company. In the era where thousands of patents are being filed by technology giants each year, it is [...]

Schlumberger Schlumberger, founded in 1926, is the world’s largest oilfield service company. It has been involved in real-time monitoring and delivery of data from the well site since the late [...]

The article provides insights of the countries with high R&D activities in digital oilfield technologies. The insights – driven from a patent landscape study on digital oil field [...]

A patent landscape study on digital oil field technologies is conducted based on the patents filed in the last 20 years. The study uncovers how the research took place globally in the last 20 [...]