Research of idea generation process for fuzzy front end based on patent analysis

The product innovation is a topic of enterprise development, and FFE (fuzzy front end) is a key stage of the product innovation. With the development of FFE study, the enabling techniques of product innovation (such as TRIZ, theory of constraints, unexpected discovery and so on) took the role of innovation idea generation for fuzzy front end. In order to help enterprise realize its own technical strength and the competitive situation, the paper proposed the research process of idea generation for FFE based on patent analysis. Patent documents contain rich information, we can get some innovation ideas through the research and analysis of these information. Finally, we take the screw pump for example to verify the feasibility of this method.