Findest Universe Documentation
  • Welcome to the Findest Universe 🪐
  • Get started
    • Set up your Universe
    • Building blocks and your library
    • Using the Universe extension to save information
    • Searching the Universe
    • Navigating your Universe
    • Using AI to write your report and extract information
    • Using the reference sidebar to build your report
  • Contributor Workflows & features
    • Save R&D Information & generate a report
    • Build Reports with AI
      • Designing AI-prompts for report generation
      • Tailor your report to your needs
      • AI-assisted information extraction
      • Full text search
    • Share Universe pages
    • Capturing highlights from PDFs and local files
    • Structuring your projects
      • Structuring Research projects
      • Structuring Technology Scouting projects
  • IGOR^AI Advanced features
    • Functional Searching in Science and patents
      • Functional searching
      • Define function & environment
      • Search Strategies
      • Building a search query
      • Manage and find your queries
      • Searching and saving
      • Databases
      • Tips and function FAQ
    • Semantic searching (Q&A)
      • Q&A
      • Semantic Search
      • Query tips for targeted results
    • Technology Search
    • Insert a results overview table
    • Rate results
    • Insert a maturity Radar
  • Technology Scouting Service Features
    • Introduction
    • Navigating through results, scouting projects and your Findest universe
    • How to vote and comment
    • Find all my scouting projects
    • Share results and Add users
    • How to edit a report?
    • Keep on searching in science and patents
    • Saving highlights and external information
    • Write an executive Summary
    • Report Building with AI
      • Designing AI-prompts for report generation
      • Tailor your report to your needs
      • AI-assisted information extraction
    • Need any more help?
  • Misc
    • Creating a password
    • Adding Users
    • Recover deleted studies and entities
    • Pin your page
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Functional Searching in Science and patents

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Last updated 5 months ago

Functional thinking and searching , a key concept in engineering design, involves analyzing the true function of a technology by seeing it as a black box. By focusing on what you are trying to achieve, this approach broadens search criteria to uncover innovative solutions. An easy way to determine what a function is for your problem is to down problems into action, object, and environment components.

As such, you can find technologies that perform the function (and not the solution) of your problem, and you can leverage natural language processing to search based on word connections rather than isolated terms.

In this section, you can learn how to define your functions, how IGOR^AI can help you find solutions in science and patents, and how to optimize your search queries.