Innovation Blog

February 10, 2026

The 80-Year-Old Method Behind What We Do

It works when the problem is chemical and the solution turns out to be mechanical. It works when the team are stuck because they've been looking at form when they should have been looking at function. It works because it was derived from what actually happened in two million patents, not from what someone theorised should happen. Eight years. Three thousand projects. One method. We plan to keep going. How about you?

October 9, 2022

The Yellow Brick Road to Innovation

For many companies, solving R&D challenges can reach a dead end as industry tunnel vision proves to be the decisive hurdle. Tried-and-tested technologies no longer meet innovation requirements, and new technologies are needed in order to remain competitive. Technology Scouting will help look beyond traditional means to gain an innovative and competitive advantage.

October 5, 2022

The MVP of Open Innovation: Technology Scouting Software

In the previous blog, technology scouting is shown to be a vital cog in the wheel of innovation. To identify technologies, certain sources of information are tapped into with various methods. However, manually sifting through mountains of information and looking for small details is analogous to finding needles in haystacks. Luckily, there are better and faster ways to do this.

Modelling Scientific Literature with Bigartm

This blogpost will explain how to use the BigARTM topic modelling library, how to preprocess the data for topic modelling using Spacy and how to calculate coherence using the Gensim package. In other words, how to train a topic model in an unsupervised manner on a custom dataset.