Patent Document ID: 8317520
Application ID: 12433099
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for identifying and evaluating innovative abilities, the system comprising: an input apparatus to facilitate identification and recording of preferences, answers and responses from at least one user relating to content comprising at least one technical capability testing instrument, and at least one innovation personality instrument for at least one innovation effort; a presentation device to display content, wherein said content comprises one or more questions; a content provider device using at least one processor to distribute and receive content to the system comprising the at least one technical capability testing instrument and the at least one innovation personality instrument, wherein each potential answer for each question contains a distinct value, wherein the at least one technical capability testing instrument comprises a plurality of technical questions and at least one key question for the at least one innovation effort, wherein the at least one key question answer modifies scores for the at least one innovation effort when a particular condition is satisfied, and the at least one innovation personality instrument is tailored to the at least one user, wherein the at least one innovation personality instrument identifies current overall openness to innovation and specific components of innovation personality to determine the overall innovation capacity of the at least one user; an innovation capacity system using the at least one processor that gathers: (i) the at least one user's answer to at least one question on the at least one innovation personality instrument for the at least one innovation effort, and (ii) the at least one user's answer to the at least one question on the at least one technical capability testing instrument for the at least one innovation effort, wherein the at least one user' s answers are gathered at different points of time and from a plurality of input devices, wherein the time required for the at least one user's answers is not gathered or recorded, wherein the innovation capacity system calculates: (i) the current openness to innovation and specific components of innovation personality of the at least one user from a plurality of the at least one user's answers on the at least one innovation personality instrument, and (ii) technical capability of the at least one user from the plurality of the at least one user's answers to the at least one technical capability testing instrument including the at least one key question for the at least one innovation effort, wherein the at least one key question answer of the at least one user modifies score of the at least one user or of other users for the at least one innovation effort when the particular condition is satisfied, wherein the innovation capacity system calculates the innovation capacity of the at least one user based on openness to innovation and the technical capability of the at least one user for the at least one innovation effort, and displays the innovation capacity of the at least one user at the presentation device.