Business Purpose:
It is a very well known fact that inventive solutions are developed for a particular problem in a technology domain. Identification of all the problems based on its origination & cause, mapping the proposed solutions to them will help R&D’s to speed up & streamline the innovation process. It also helps them to avoid re-inventing the wheel & eventually save lot of efforts & money for the R&D departments. Apart from this, problem-solution approach could help us conduct competitive intelligence, technology monitoring, white space identification, licensing study etc.. It is also used by some patent offices (EP, Australia etc..) for examination of inventive step. Problem-solution analysis can also be used as a starter for drafting purpose.
