Higher-Level Thinking Captures Market Shares and Creates Brand-New Markets

Higher-Level Thinking (HLT) “Creates the Impossible Now” – delivers maximum-impact, high-level inventions to the marketplace. The company that possesses these inventions establishes and maintains market dominance in existing markets, and creates new markets as well. HLT also points to leading-edge technologies to rapidly develop new products for the global marketplace. The ability to do this is a matter of business survival.

Increasing the productivity of creative ideas and concepts within a corporation is not the point. The point is to own and control the high-level product concepts that directly lead to the capture of significant market share. The need for generating “the right” new products is driven by the need to respond to what competitors are doing, and to satisfy customers' diverse and ever-changing needs. This need is filled by Higher-Level Thinking.

Higher-Level Thinking leads to new-technology development, high-level design concepts, and to their fruits powerful new products. HLT is a mandatory requirement for a company to survive, because it greatly accelerates the process that begins with conception and ends with market introduction.

Product concepts generated by Higher-Level Thinking are patentable. They establish a corporate patent umbrella which protects the company's intellectual property, and which captures a significantly larger market share.

Excellent Product Concepts Derive from Higher-Level Thinking

Higher-Level Thinking only generates the most excellent concepts – high-level concepts that lead to capturing significant market share. The number of inventions is not the point. Inventions from HLT demonstrate that the “quality and profitability of an invention” are the points that count.

Higher-Level Thinking is a product of higher mind, not ordinary mind. It removes negative paradigms based on “limited” thinking, and applies ‘higher mind’ thinking to achieve brilliant inventions. All Higher-Level Thinking inventions belong to the highest levels of Intellectual Property: Levels 2 and 3. Not all inventions are equal. Seventy-two percent (72 %) of U.S. Patents are low-level patents: Level 1.

There are several criteria for each ‘level’ mentioned above. Level 1 patents are ‘solutions’ to relatively trivial problems. Often no technical conflicts exist in such problems. Level 2 patents are solutions to problems which had definite technical conflicts – for example, an automobile air bag should operate as rapidly as possible in order to save the life of the driver or passenger. On the other hand, the air bag should be inflated relatively slowly so that the bag itself does not injure the driver or passenger. “The air bag speed has to be fast and slow.” Solutions to such problems are (at least) Level 2 patents. Level 3 patents are ‘solutions’ to problems which often had no ‘precedent solutions’ and which contained (perhaps) multiple conflicts. Often the solution to problems solved by Level 3 patents is unknown – the technology or science required to solve it is absent. Such was the case for the discovery of the transistor, and for Velcro (as well) – in the case of Velcro, the discoverer was a careful observer of Nature, noticing that certain dry plant growths ‘stuck’ to his trousers.

Before HLT, the primary driving force behind great inventions was necessity. For corporations, necessity always exists. The great driving force behind high-level inventions is its powerful creative algorithms which Innovative Patent Technology, Inc., uses to deliver market-breaking, innovative products.

The Higher Mind behind Higher-Level Thinking

Higher-Level Thinking is an analytical discipline that leads directly to super-marketable products. The ‘mind’ behind this approach represents higher modes of thinking. Our founder, Dr. James Kowalick, took the randomness out of creative thinking, and introduced a consistent, dependable structure that was governed by objective laws of thinking from ‘higher mind.’

The root cause of the randomness of today’s patent concepts is ‘formatory thinking’ - the arch-enemy of brilliant invention. Prior to Higher-Level Thinking, formatory thinking had a free reign. Old creative processes were either miss-guided, complex or incapable (etc., Brainstorming and TRIZ), stifled by ‘paradigm paralysis’.  That all changed when ‘higher mind’ thinking was applied to invention.

About The Higher-Level Thinking Approach

The idea that there is a “Higher Mind” available to a designer-inventor came to Dr. James Kowalick on a raft, in the middle of a lake, in Malibu, California. It was truly a moment of enlightenment, because this idea is the ‘Mother of all Conceptualization.’ Kowalick went on to develop algorithms which automate this breakthrough mental process. He recognized Higher-Level Thinking as the “Science” of invention and Intellectual Property. HLT combines artificial intelligence with Dr. Kowalick’s 20-year investigation of the Human Mind as a Creative Factory.

The Seven Stages Of Product Development

All products in the marketplace, as they are ‘improved,’ evolve through seven stages:

1. Observation of an opportunity;
2. Formulation of the inventive challenge;
3. The invention itself;
4. Overcoming problems that impede successful product launches;
5. Rapid Product Growth, accompanied by major marketplace competition;
6. Product Maturity; and
7. Marketplace deterioration, accompanied by early launching of next-generation products.

Examples of old technologies being replaced by new technologies are everywhere. Observing this technology evolution pattern, Dr. Kowalick conceptualized Higher-Level Thinking and transformed it into a systematic innovation process through the used of creative algorithms.

Higher-Level Thinking accurately predicts next-generation products for selected product-systems (shaving; automobile air bags; cell phones; the Internet; etc.).

The bottom line for a corporation is: Higher-Level Thinking captures more market share now, and leads to profitable new markets as well (often leaving the older markets in shambles – just as computers did to the typewriter industry).