An innovation consultancy delivering ingeniously creative solutions
SERVICES
Identify valuable innovation opportunities.
Ideate, refine and package patentable solutions.
Construct, test, iterate and deliver prototypes and products.
Connecting innovators, identifying opportunities and providing a masterfully designed platform to drive prolific invention.
ABOUT US
Keon partners with you to develop smart solutions to complex problems.
Difficult challenges require more than incremental improvements. The Keon Research process is an aligned approach to create, validate and deliver value-driven solutions for our partners. Our unique combination of invention analytics, prolific team of inventors, and in- house rapid prototyping lab delivers profound solutions with clean IP, robust proof of principle data packages, and clear go-to-market strategies.
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Uncover innovation gaps
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Apply proven invention process
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Unlock groundbreaking solutions
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Capture client-owned IP tied to commercialization strategies
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Seamlessly translate ideas to product development
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Stay agile and deliver value
OUR TEAM
We are passionate, applied thinkers; a team of creative, analytical and focused minds with deep experience solving a wide range of industry challenges. Our talent pool of people cover biology, chemistry, physics, materials, devices, engineering, IP management and commercialization.
 Michael Manion PhD MBACEO & Co-Founder Driven to solve compelling challenges through invention together with deep aptitude bringing new technologies to market including international experience founding and directing technology ventures and non-profit organizations. |  Heather Kelley BSCo-Founder & Director of Operations Experience in biotechnology, start-ups, marketing and technology commercialization. Support business development and operations for Keon Research, with interests in business efficiency solutions and streamlined platforms. |  Director of Inspiration |
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OUR PORTFOLIO
We partner with clients to identify, create and realize growth opportunities through innovation.
track record
case studies
Xinova: Invention consulting
Seattle, WA
Xinova is the leading managed open innovation provider having established a global innovation community to address innovation needs across a variety of industries. Keon works closely with the Xinova team to bring the inventor perspective to partner engagements. Keon has been involved with many aspects of Xinova’s business from analytics and innovation consulting, prolifically responding to ‘Requests for Invention’, to prototype development and proof of concept studies. Xinova has acquired more than 50 inventions from Keon.
Meat & Livestock Australia: Cow Tattoo
Sydney, Australia
The industry has been trying to solve the dark cutting meat problem by treating the meat, using blooming agents and dyes, but it continues to be a huge value detractor for the industry. Our exploration identified the underlying problem of animal stress as the opportunity for real improvement. We invented and prototyped physiologically responsive tattoos to provide a visual cue of different health monitors especially of importance for production animals.
Fortune 50 Food and Beverage Company: Non-thermal Pasteurization
New York, NY
UV is a viable approach for reducing microbial load, however to penetrate into opaque solution, the dose is prohibitively high. Through a combination of physics and nanotechnology approaches, we invented a UV-based system that requires much lower dose of light to deliver significant kill effect in an opaque solution such as juice. We have built this to bench scale and are currently planning scale up to pilot.
Case study on Non-thermal Pasteurization
Global Good Fund/Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Fecal Sludge Dewatering
Seattle, WA
We invented an entirely new approach to sludge dewatering that allows for continuous, low energy, robust dewatering without the need for flocculation or any increase in the footprint of the system. The system is simple to use and requires minimal maintenance. We have designed a bench scale system to demonstrate proof of concept.