i²Kn is based on an innovative methodology, modelling logical thinking and registering issues/solutions couples.

i²Kn classifies the experts by contributions and not by competencies. It establishes links between technical actors (experts and users), know-how and solutions (presented in a functional and composite way). This singular architecture satisfies industrials’ needs of innovation and capitalization of logical thinking.

For each company i²Kn is composed of two scientific community databases.

• An internal database (private access to the company’s actors) which capitalizes the specialists’ logical thinking which allow to bring solutions. By interviewing your teams, we establish a mind-map of these pieces of thinking; we register the experience’s paths in a wiki-type « wiki » and very innovative computer tool which will “give you access «  to logical thinking via logical thinking  » and to elaborate a directory of your company actors by know-how;
   
• A scientific database shared with contractors, suppliers and research laboratories. This scientific database is filled-in with the ten-years experience of MeetSYS and is structured like a dictionary of technical elementary functions; it summarizes all the fundamental physics’ functions; it allows external specialists and technology’s suppliers to identify themselves as experts in the functions for which they have developed expertise; consequently, you access a network of specialists who handle knowledge and pieces of technology and who can bring you the innovation you are searching for.

The main advantages of i2Kn :

• Capitalization of logical thinking and know-how;
• Contextualisation of the scientific and technical pieces of information by linking them to the functions they allow to carry out;
• Saving in productivity in your company’s Research & Development’s processes by supplying to your teams a unique and efficient tool to identify the key experts (internal and external) who will develop your innovative solutions;
• « Open Innovation » via the sharing of your experts’ know-how and logical thinking (and not their conclusions) with a security-protected opening provided for all your geographical sites via your internal database;
• « Open Innovation »via the networking with experts, contractors and suppliers, registered in our common scientific database, i2Kn.com, which includes more than 2000 pages of technical elementary functions;
• New commercial contacts’ prospective for technology’s experts or inventors who highlight their outputs and know-how in the industrial field;
• Collaborative innovation guided by a functional approach.

Access to i2Kn technology

• You work in the industrial field and you want to understand how we manage know-how capitalization? Please read the page "Our approach/i2Kn".
• You work in a research laboratory or a school, you are a technology supplier, you want to contribute to our database enrichment, to have access to the new technologies or simply to discover science? Click on the following logo and join our community.