Doug Hall (inventor)

Originally designed as a "think tank for hire",[2] the Ranch worked primarily with Fortune 100/500 companies looking for new product ideas.

[3] The Ranch partnered with the University of Maine in 2005 with the founding of a new field of study called Innovation Engineering.

[4] Designed as a system based on the principles of W. Edwards Deming and the Quality Movement, it consists of 48 skills[5] designed to instill a mindset of innovation.

The R&D team of Eureka Ranch developed an AI system called Merwyn Technology.

This system is used to evaluate abstract ideas before additional effort is used to substantiate it.