Inventing the Future

Inventing the Future is a partnership between The Oracle Partnership and ipCapital Group.

We bring together Oracle’s agenda-setting foresight, imaginative world-building scenarios and ground-breaking ideas with ipCapital Group’s inventive talent.  Our work ranges from advice on strategic innovation, to predictive models that highlight where to invent and invest in breakthroughs, to ‘invention on demand’.

In the ‘edge of chaos’ conditions that will pervade the next decade and beyond, we believe there is an invention gap that must be bridged—a gap that is systemic and strategic, cutting across all industry sectors and spanning global security, environmental stability, policy, regulation, economics and corporate stewardship.

We leverage a global network of foresight specialists, domain experts, innovators, scientists, and engineers to transform imaginative future-focused concepts into inventions and innovations.

ipCapital Group was founded by John Cronin, one of the world’s leading inventors, former head of the IBM Patent Factory, and creator of unique intellectual property (IP) landscapes and white space analysis. Drawing on a lifelong study of creative and inventive thinking processes and business strategy development, John has created a methodology that includes powerful data-driven IP creation, providing clients with ‘invention on demand’ services.