Inventor Mentoring and Strengthening of Ideas
The team should consider ideas in a lateral fashion, building on previous thoughts. As a mentor, this means encouraging innovations surrounding a theme. Follow the team's thinking and find areas that as a mentor you are able to increase the teams' level of sensitivity to a design point. Select a point in the invention design that seems weak—solution aspects are broad and unclear. Ask questions around this area, causing the teams to consider points of novelty they had not yet considered in their solution sets. Once they do this, direct the teams back to the problem(s) they are trying to solve and ask each team to think in terms of “how do any new points of novelty we are considering help to solve this ...
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