A key aspect of the Cross-Industry Innovation approach is the search for analogue problems and solutions in a variety of industries to find viable cooperation partners. Usually a media based search is conducted to find these partners. However, media based search approaches often suffer from unfiltered search results due to the lack of semantic understanding of the search queries. Thus the filtering of relevant search results takes an additional step within the search process which is time consuming. To improve the process of finding viable partners, the lack of semantic understanding can be remedied by using an ontology-based database. This paper presents a first approach of an ontology based search procedure as well as the embedded structure of the ontology. It specifies how an ontology-based database can be built and points out which stakeholder have to be involved to support the idea of a semantic identification process.     «

A key aspect of the Cross-Industry Innovation approach is the search for analogue problems and solutions in a variety of industries to find viable cooperation partners. Usually a media based search is conducted to find these partners. However, media based search approaches often suffer from unfiltered search results due to the lack of semantic understanding of the search queries. Thus the filtering of relevant search results takes an additional step within the search process which is time consum...     »