Leveraging the R&D Tax Incentive for your Innovation

CLAIM – HYPOTHESIS

A hypothesis is specific and is about the technical and scientific "idea" that will be developed and tested to generate the technical aim.

The hypothesis should be expressed as a relationship between variables which can be proven or disproven.

e.g. Compression Algorithm v1 will compress a 12-megapixel image without exceeding the limits of the low-power processor.

In some cases there is a high level hypothesis with a number of specific sub-hypotheses that are required to create the total result.

Be careful not to mix a technical objective with a hypothesis .

e.g. I hypothesise that we can develop a new technical solution to xyz. This is not a hypothesis.