InoNet offers a creative, competent problem solving service that has never been available before. InoNet uses inventors as its experts. These are competent, highly creative people who are accustomed to finding solutions that are atypical, innovative, unconstrained by organizational or academic boundaries, and practical. From its database, InoNet chooses a group of 8 to 10 inventors, representing a wide range of disciplines, to work on the problem. At the end of the session, InoNet prepares a report to the client.
Solutions typically take the form of suggestions of new avenues to explore.
In that case, the solution and the report become the property of the client. The names of the experts are not revealed to the client company, nor is the name of the company revealed to the experts. In some cases, inventors may be able to offer patented solutions for the problem. Here, InoNet will offer the client the opportunity to license the solution and will negotiate an equitable agreement among the client, InoNet and the inventor. Such a transaction would take place outside of the problem-solving environment.