Our advice
Use patent databases to monitor innovation

To work effectively on innovation and knowledge of your environment, build up a broad selection of patents dealing with the field to be studied. If your questions are too specific, you'll end up with a list of patents that fall within your "core target". This will prevent you from analyzing what's going on around the subject, which is the most interesting from a prospective and innovative point of view. The MatheoPatent [FIC 1089] tool, on the other hand, is designed to rapidly analyze large quantities of notices, giving you a "panoramic" view of the subject....