TECHNOLOGY AND COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
State of the Art in Consultancy
From finding the right information up to the decision-making process, Grund helps our customers get insights from a large volume of technical and market data.
Our solutions aim to bring in knowledge from outside the company to better answer complex questions related to the innovation process.
IP Consulting
Prior-Art Search
Freedom to Operate Analysis
Patent Landscape
Validate the patentability of your invention. We search for other previous inventions in a patent database and analyze the ones that could represent a threat for your future patent for indicating a lack of novelty and/or inventive steps.
Assess the possibility to use or commercialize your product or process without infringing another party’s IP on a specific region. Reduce the risk of an infringement claim before launching or developing a new solution.
A broader study to answer different questions regarding your area of interest. Analyze existing patents for ideation, search for alternative solutions, identify a player’s patent footprint, get a grasp of innovation trends, among many other possibilities.
Innovation Consulting
Technology Landscape
Player Profile
Tailor-made report
A broad analysis of a technology or field of knowledge to identify trends and answer more comprehensive questions. We search many different data sources at the same time (patents, scientific papers, news, standards, market data, etc.) and perform technical analysis to give an objective answer.
Get all the information you want about a player, be it a competitor, potential partner, or customer. We analyze his innovation footprint, identify its strategies and positioning.
A customized solution to better meet all your specific needs, combining different data sources, tools and our know-how to reach the desired results.
Patent Monitoring
Stay always up-to-date, don't be taken by surprise anymore
• Monthly updates of new patents filed in a key-field or by a key-player
• Summary and Tags to make it easier to analyze the documents in an agile manner
• Other information (such as scientific papers and news) can also be added to the monitoring routine for a wider view of the technology or player
Portfolio Benchmark
Complex product and catalog data centralized and organized for easy comparison
• Receive a centralized database of product information in order to compare yourself to other players and quickly evaluate the competitive field;
• Tailor-made dashboard to get all relevant analysis just a few clicks away;
• Create monitoring routines to keep track of new products launched;
OUR SERVICES
INDUSTRIES
Focused on your Business
MATERIALS
HVAC
ELECTRONICS
CHEMICALS
PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
OIL & GAS
AEROSPACE
AUTOMOTIVE
DEFENSE
CUSTOMERS & PARTNERS
Paving The Way
LISTEN TO OUR CLIENTS
What they are saying
“Mercur's innovation team is constantly seeking new ways of working and testing new processes that may facilitate people's activities. That was the reason why we connected with Grund, to accelerate and broaden the horizons of our research process. The interactions between the teams during the research period were absolutely positive and contributed to the final report delivering what we expected. We were delighted with the work and the experience."
Cássia Hoelzel,
Head of Vóka - Mercur Innovation Center
WHAT SETS US APART?
Engineering, data science, Competitive Intelligence, Intellectual Property and others.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND EXPERIENCED TEAM
Patents, Scientific Papers, News, Web, Laws and Norms, Market Data.
INTEGRATED DATA ANALYSIS FROM DIFFERENT TYPES
English, Mandarin-Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish and German.
MULTI LANGUAGE DOMAIN
Global Databases, Proprietary Scraping Tools, Business Intelligence Tools.
BEST TOOLS AND DATABASES
Agile approach and proven methods to present the best cost-benefit.
QUALITY AND AGILITY
We treat all our clients as real partners, a close relation that guarantees an assertive Project follow up.
PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
The group is in constant learning, recycling and spreading the knowledge to stay relevant and up-to-date.
REGULAR UPDATES
Finding and Enhancing talents is in our DNA and it is a key point for our success.
TALENT VALORIZATION
ABOUT US
The Full Story
We are a company formed by consultants and competitive intelligence professionals working with big multinationals from different industries, helping them innovate better, with lower risks and higher returns since 2011 .
Our origin is of a close cooperation with R&D, intelligence and marketing teams, acting as specialists on gathering, analyzing and communicating large datasets of complex engineering subjects, allowing our partners to allocate their team on what they do best while we handle external information.
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HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
Please contact us at contact@grundconsulting.com and we will gladly assist you.