"The Laboratory of Methods and Techniques for Innovation (LMTI) develops tools and methodologies to support the design and development of innovative products and processes and transfer the knowledge acquired to the industrial sphere. The activities of interest, to which correspond the relative services that the Laboratory is able to offer, are related to:
- Reengineering of business processes, based on value innovation and through the definition of methodological tools for the analysis of processes, identification of critical phases, definition of necessary and sustainable innovations for the removal of critical points.
- Conceptual design of products/services
- Problem - Systematic solving, through the skills of methodologies to support the identification of innovative solutions (TRIZ, the laboratory is part of the national center ""Center of Competence for Systematic Innovation"").
- Patent database analysis for retrieving technical knowledge for checking technological trends, analysing the state of the art, identifying the characteristic functions of a patent/product."