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Inventors & Engineers
- Confirm your invention’s value in the market
- Help you understand your target market
- Show you how to think like an entrepreneur
- Coach you on how to communicate with
investors
- Teach you idea protection strategies that won’t break the bank
Universities and Businesses
- Get market confirmation of your idea’s value
- Help you develop a successful research commercialization plan
- Identify a winning innovation team
- Bring together the right investment team for your invention
- Establish effective collaboration and communication systems and protocols
- Create an entrepreneurial environment and culture
- Identify a practical intellectual property protection strategy
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What does it take to bring your idea to
market:
- Decent idea that helps make people’s lives
better and that they can be convinced to pay
money to get!
- Understanding of investors and their needs.
- Detailed knowledge of your target market.
- Effective idea protection that prevents others
from profiting from your hard work.
You need:
- Your idea
- To think like an entrepreneur
- To understand investors and their mindsets,
needs and how to get them to ask for more
- To understand intellectual property (IP) protection strategies and options
- To develop a team to help you
- Efficient processes to get successful results from you and your team
Don’t:
- Patent an idea with no market value
- Spend all your time and money on patents and patent attorneys
- Think that everyone will want your invention or rush to pay money for it
- Not disclose information to those who can help you
- Hire an invention promotion or invention development firm
- Raise money from the wrong sources
- Expect everyone to drop what they are doing to help with inventions
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