This document announces workshops and training sessions put on by Inventors-of-America to help inventors and entrepreneurs succeed in bringing ideas to market. It describes an upcoming tele-seminar on February 16th and two-day workshop on February 24-25th focused on 21st Century invention techniques and the manuals being released on the topic areas of design-to-cost, invention, and finance for inventors. The workshops will provide hands-on training and case studies to increase understanding of development, teamwork, risk assessment, and other skills needed for invention and new business startups.
The document discusses e-training of teachers and trainers in Europe. It begins by defining the territory, noting the importance of teacher training given their role in modern societies. It then outlines three main innovation paradigms in teacher training: 1) a vision for a well-qualified, lifelong learning profession; 2) goals of the Lisbon Agenda to improve education systems; 3) trends promoting continuous training through peer learning, schools as learning organizations, and school-company partnerships. The document analyzes what was hoped for through initiatives like eLearning and what progress actually occurred, including increased access to technology in schools and the development of projects and networks. Present challenges in using ICT for e-training are also discussed.
This document provides information on several 21st century inventions including hypersonic transportation that can travel at 4 times the speed of sound and transport 100 people from London to New York in an hour, the iPod which started with only holding 20 songs but newer models can hold a user's entire music library, the iPad which can store various file types and was created by Steve Jobs, Facebook which was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, and the Kindle e-reader which can store thousands of books and includes images.
A presentation by Kim Cofino given to Qatar Academy staff in February 2009. Find more details on the presentation wiki: http://the21stcenturylearner.wikispaces.com
Cracking the Enigma of Innovation in Established CompaniesMukom Akong Tamon
Every CEO talks about innovation, but few established organisations are good at doing it.
I explain why that's difficult using Clayton Christensen's RPV framework and how it can be done using Lean Startup tools
TRIPWEST is a tour organized for scandinavian investors interested in extending both their regional scandinavian network, and their professional network in Silicon Valley.
Workshop on Intellectual Property, Innovation & Commercial Best PracticesMartin Schweiger
Organised by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Asia's most prestigious university in Engineering, join us this Wednesday night, 3rd Nov, 6.30-8.30pm (Singapore time) as Martin Schweiger shares about his experience in Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Commercial Best Practices in today's context. He will also introduce his 4x4 Innovation Strategy to all of you innovators and entrepreneurs of the present and future!
Common Innovation Myths (World Usability Day)Effective
The document discusses common myths about innovation. It debunks the myths that innovation must be new (many innovations are incremental improvements), that innovation is always good, and that innovation equals new products. It also challenges the myths that innovation is the work of lone geniuses and that customers inhibit innovation. The document advocates for fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity across organizations to encourage innovation. It provides examples of how companies like Pixar, Zappos, and Jobs at Apple cultivated cultures that broke down barriers and sparked new ideas at the intersections of different fields and perspectives.
This document discusses intellectual property, patent processes, licensing technology, and valuing technology. It covers:
- The main types of intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.
- The requirements and process for obtaining a US utility patent.
- Reasons for licensing technology and what licensing entails.
- Factors that affect how the value of technology is determined, such as its development stage, technical and commercial risks, economic impact, and future advances.
- Approaches for valuing technology based on costs, market comparisons, and projected income.
The document discusses e-training of teachers and trainers in Europe. It begins by defining the territory, noting the importance of teacher training given their role in modern societies. It then outlines three main innovation paradigms in teacher training: 1) a vision for a well-qualified, lifelong learning profession; 2) goals of the Lisbon Agenda to improve education systems; 3) trends promoting continuous training through peer learning, schools as learning organizations, and school-company partnerships. The document analyzes what was hoped for through initiatives like eLearning and what progress actually occurred, including increased access to technology in schools and the development of projects and networks. Present challenges in using ICT for e-training are also discussed.
This document provides information on several 21st century inventions including hypersonic transportation that can travel at 4 times the speed of sound and transport 100 people from London to New York in an hour, the iPod which started with only holding 20 songs but newer models can hold a user's entire music library, the iPad which can store various file types and was created by Steve Jobs, Facebook which was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, and the Kindle e-reader which can store thousands of books and includes images.
A presentation by Kim Cofino given to Qatar Academy staff in February 2009. Find more details on the presentation wiki: http://the21stcenturylearner.wikispaces.com
Cracking the Enigma of Innovation in Established CompaniesMukom Akong Tamon
Every CEO talks about innovation, but few established organisations are good at doing it.
I explain why that's difficult using Clayton Christensen's RPV framework and how it can be done using Lean Startup tools
TRIPWEST is a tour organized for scandinavian investors interested in extending both their regional scandinavian network, and their professional network in Silicon Valley.
Workshop on Intellectual Property, Innovation & Commercial Best PracticesMartin Schweiger
Organised by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Asia's most prestigious university in Engineering, join us this Wednesday night, 3rd Nov, 6.30-8.30pm (Singapore time) as Martin Schweiger shares about his experience in Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Commercial Best Practices in today's context. He will also introduce his 4x4 Innovation Strategy to all of you innovators and entrepreneurs of the present and future!
Common Innovation Myths (World Usability Day)Effective
The document discusses common myths about innovation. It debunks the myths that innovation must be new (many innovations are incremental improvements), that innovation is always good, and that innovation equals new products. It also challenges the myths that innovation is the work of lone geniuses and that customers inhibit innovation. The document advocates for fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity across organizations to encourage innovation. It provides examples of how companies like Pixar, Zappos, and Jobs at Apple cultivated cultures that broke down barriers and sparked new ideas at the intersections of different fields and perspectives.
This document discusses intellectual property, patent processes, licensing technology, and valuing technology. It covers:
- The main types of intellectual property including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets.
- The requirements and process for obtaining a US utility patent.
- Reasons for licensing technology and what licensing entails.
- Factors that affect how the value of technology is determined, such as its development stage, technical and commercial risks, economic impact, and future advances.
- Approaches for valuing technology based on costs, market comparisons, and projected income.
The document discusses strategies for innovation and design, including focusing strategy and convergence to be more human-minded, exploring new paths of creative collaboration through co-design and crowd-sourcing, moving from exclusive to inclusive innovation with open source design, and innovating for a safer life through green and social design. It also discusses different phases of innovation from basic research to pioneering applications to products to holistic experiences.
The document summarizes the services provided by the Centre for Research & Innovation (CRI), a partnership between Grande Prairie Regional College and the Peace Region Economic Development Alliance. The CRI helps innovators and inventors with intellectual property protection, prototyping, workshops, and accessing funding like innovation vouchers. It has helped over 476 clients and provided support to several startups that are now ready to market products. The CRI also runs workshops on topics like intellectual property management, marketing, and accessing investment capital to support innovation in the Peace region.
The document discusses design-driven innovation and what B2B marketers can learn from it. It describes a global innovation firm that helps leading companies develop breakthrough products and services through human-centered design. The firm uses insights, technology, and inspiration to create lasting impact and value for clients across many industries. It also outlines common triggers for innovation and questions companies should ask to strengthen their innovation processes.
What B2B Marketers Can Learn from Design-Driven Innovationfrog
The document discusses seven key lessons for B2B marketers from design-driven innovation:
1. Understand customers through empathy to gain insights.
2. Make data meaningful by connecting it to social value, innovation, and customer experiences.
3. Make the product the story or make a product for the story to create compelling experiences.
4. Create a convergent experience by bringing together different technologies, platforms, and media.
5. Fail fast through early prototyping and testing of ideas.
6. Simplify by removing unnecessary complexity and focusing on the essential.
7. Disrupt existing models rather than just interrupting them with new products or services.
Userdriven innivation - listen to your customersPeter Møller
This document discusses user-driven innovation and how listening to customers is important for innovation success. It defines innovation as taking a new idea and turning it into a useful solution. The document outlines different types of innovation such as product, process, and procedure innovations. It also discusses levels of innovation from incremental to breakthrough innovations. While innovation is important for growth, the document notes that many innovation projects fail because they do not meet customer needs or have ineffective implementation. To improve innovation success, the key is understanding customer problems and having a clear strategy.
This document discusses using directed innovation to generate creative solutions to difficult problems. It outlines a workflow for directed innovation that includes obtaining senior management sponsorship, selecting an experienced facilitator, identifying a high-value problem of the future, generating thought-provoking questions, selecting a diverse team of participants, using the questions to generate ideas in pairs, combining and evaluating the ideas, and tracking ideas to completion. The goal is to treat the innovation session like a project and manage it systematically to produce novel, high-quality solutions.
This presentation is about high tech innovation. The original study was to be on Asia, but as it turns out this applies anywhere.
In direct presentation the title slide plays "Powers of 10" in the background. It is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6qnZzVRAU
(*) the 'teacher' on page 41 is chopped out of a cartoon by Paul Taylor and modified a bit.
Slide 55 is an out-take of a video on cognitive education, it is an important video for the presentation, please see http://goo.gl/n2fzU2
Ann Arbor Startup Community Development H1'09Dug Song
a review of the last 6 months of grassroots tech / startup community organizing in Ann Arbor, MI.
from the July 2009 Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup http://a2newtech.org/calendar/10715802/
cover photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mightyboybrian/3596888010/
Finding Innovation in the 500lbs GorillaKevin Cheng
Presentation at IA Summit 2007 on how we overcame fear, built trust and made believers out of the team to get time and support for dedicating time for innovation. Updated 2008 for AOL presentation.
Research linkage to_innovation_and_entrepreneurship_tsTarek Salah
The document discusses innovation and entrepreneurship. It introduces the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, explaining the difference between invention and innovation. It defines entrepreneurs and provides examples of different types. It also presents a case study on Osborne Computer Company, which grew rapidly but then declared bankruptcy within 6 months due to lagging in R&D and delays in capital formation.
INNOVATE YOUR BUSINESS AMIDST THE DIGITAL [R]EVOLUTIONTheProjectNZ
The document provides a summary of technology innovations and trends over the past 100+ years. It begins with innovations from the late 19th/early 20th century like the safety pin, paper clip, and light bulb. It then discusses trends from different eras like the rise of mass production, computers, and the internet. The document highlights major tech advances for each decade and notes the shift to an information society. It concludes by looking ahead to 2020 and opportunities around disruptive technologies, the future of work, and doing business in Asia Pacific.
The document discusses various topics related to design and innovation including:
1. Three types of innovation - as a process, capability, and culture.
2. The challenges of discontinuous innovation and how a more flexible, interdisciplinary and concurrent workflow can help address these challenges.
3. The concept of convergence in areas like hardware/software and disciplines. How a convergent approach helped make the iPod successful.
4. The importance of both convergence and divergence in design and how marketing is shifting from a "push" to a "pull" model.
The Innovation Bootcamp University of California Irvine Presentation by Sanja...Sanjay Dalal
Sanjay Dalal presented the Innovation Bootcamp at University of California, Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business on January 12, 2009. This was the accelerated version of the Innovation Bootcamp. Check out: www.InnovationMain.com for the Rigorous and Intermediate Innovation Bootcamps to jumpstart innovations and build an innovation factory.
In 2012, Lehigh University launched a new master’s degree in technical entrepreneurship. The cross disciplinary approach opened the door to graduate school education in technical entrepreneurship for students from all academic backgrounds, creating a melting pot of experience, skills and aspirations in the classroom. This one-year, 30-credit professional master’s program (M.Eng.) in technical entrepreneurship helps student entrepreneurs create, refine, and commercialize intellectual property through the licensing or launching of a new business. Students in the program learn by experiencing the idea-to-venture process in an educational environment that’s hard-wired to support the development of novel, innovative, and commercially-viable technologies. Attendees will hear about the types of students from the first cohort, the perspective of the faculty members responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum, and lessons learned.
Sw7 is a tech accelerator in Africa that has mentored over 300 businesses. The document discusses how building high scale tech businesses in Africa requires focusing on building functioning funnels to acquire and convert customers efficiently. It also emphasizes getting the strategy right by differentiating and meeting customer needs, and how cloud businesses require selling in a way that customers are buying. The presentation provides insights on how cloud changes the business model to focus on metrics like customer lifetime value and cost of customer acquisition.
This document provides an overview of intellectual property protection for inventors. It discusses the importance of protecting inventions through patents, trademarks, and copyrights. It emphasizes conducting a prior art search to understand existing relevant technologies and avoid common mistakes like public use before filing. The document recommends working with experienced patent professionals early to strategically protect an invention's competitive advantages under the first-inventor-to-file system.
The document discusses strategies for innovation and design, including focusing strategy and convergence to be more human-minded, exploring new paths of creative collaboration through co-design and crowd-sourcing, moving from exclusive to inclusive innovation with open source design, and innovating for a safer life through green and social design. It also discusses different phases of innovation from basic research to pioneering applications to products to holistic experiences.
The document summarizes the services provided by the Centre for Research & Innovation (CRI), a partnership between Grande Prairie Regional College and the Peace Region Economic Development Alliance. The CRI helps innovators and inventors with intellectual property protection, prototyping, workshops, and accessing funding like innovation vouchers. It has helped over 476 clients and provided support to several startups that are now ready to market products. The CRI also runs workshops on topics like intellectual property management, marketing, and accessing investment capital to support innovation in the Peace region.
The document discusses design-driven innovation and what B2B marketers can learn from it. It describes a global innovation firm that helps leading companies develop breakthrough products and services through human-centered design. The firm uses insights, technology, and inspiration to create lasting impact and value for clients across many industries. It also outlines common triggers for innovation and questions companies should ask to strengthen their innovation processes.
What B2B Marketers Can Learn from Design-Driven Innovationfrog
The document discusses seven key lessons for B2B marketers from design-driven innovation:
1. Understand customers through empathy to gain insights.
2. Make data meaningful by connecting it to social value, innovation, and customer experiences.
3. Make the product the story or make a product for the story to create compelling experiences.
4. Create a convergent experience by bringing together different technologies, platforms, and media.
5. Fail fast through early prototyping and testing of ideas.
6. Simplify by removing unnecessary complexity and focusing on the essential.
7. Disrupt existing models rather than just interrupting them with new products or services.
Userdriven innivation - listen to your customersPeter Møller
This document discusses user-driven innovation and how listening to customers is important for innovation success. It defines innovation as taking a new idea and turning it into a useful solution. The document outlines different types of innovation such as product, process, and procedure innovations. It also discusses levels of innovation from incremental to breakthrough innovations. While innovation is important for growth, the document notes that many innovation projects fail because they do not meet customer needs or have ineffective implementation. To improve innovation success, the key is understanding customer problems and having a clear strategy.
This document discusses using directed innovation to generate creative solutions to difficult problems. It outlines a workflow for directed innovation that includes obtaining senior management sponsorship, selecting an experienced facilitator, identifying a high-value problem of the future, generating thought-provoking questions, selecting a diverse team of participants, using the questions to generate ideas in pairs, combining and evaluating the ideas, and tracking ideas to completion. The goal is to treat the innovation session like a project and manage it systematically to produce novel, high-quality solutions.
This presentation is about high tech innovation. The original study was to be on Asia, but as it turns out this applies anywhere.
In direct presentation the title slide plays "Powers of 10" in the background. It is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6qnZzVRAU
(*) the 'teacher' on page 41 is chopped out of a cartoon by Paul Taylor and modified a bit.
Slide 55 is an out-take of a video on cognitive education, it is an important video for the presentation, please see http://goo.gl/n2fzU2
Ann Arbor Startup Community Development H1'09Dug Song
a review of the last 6 months of grassroots tech / startup community organizing in Ann Arbor, MI.
from the July 2009 Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup http://a2newtech.org/calendar/10715802/
cover photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mightyboybrian/3596888010/
Finding Innovation in the 500lbs GorillaKevin Cheng
Presentation at IA Summit 2007 on how we overcame fear, built trust and made believers out of the team to get time and support for dedicating time for innovation. Updated 2008 for AOL presentation.
Research linkage to_innovation_and_entrepreneurship_tsTarek Salah
The document discusses innovation and entrepreneurship. It introduces the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, explaining the difference between invention and innovation. It defines entrepreneurs and provides examples of different types. It also presents a case study on Osborne Computer Company, which grew rapidly but then declared bankruptcy within 6 months due to lagging in R&D and delays in capital formation.
INNOVATE YOUR BUSINESS AMIDST THE DIGITAL [R]EVOLUTIONTheProjectNZ
The document provides a summary of technology innovations and trends over the past 100+ years. It begins with innovations from the late 19th/early 20th century like the safety pin, paper clip, and light bulb. It then discusses trends from different eras like the rise of mass production, computers, and the internet. The document highlights major tech advances for each decade and notes the shift to an information society. It concludes by looking ahead to 2020 and opportunities around disruptive technologies, the future of work, and doing business in Asia Pacific.
The document discusses various topics related to design and innovation including:
1. Three types of innovation - as a process, capability, and culture.
2. The challenges of discontinuous innovation and how a more flexible, interdisciplinary and concurrent workflow can help address these challenges.
3. The concept of convergence in areas like hardware/software and disciplines. How a convergent approach helped make the iPod successful.
4. The importance of both convergence and divergence in design and how marketing is shifting from a "push" to a "pull" model.
The Innovation Bootcamp University of California Irvine Presentation by Sanja...Sanjay Dalal
Sanjay Dalal presented the Innovation Bootcamp at University of California, Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business on January 12, 2009. This was the accelerated version of the Innovation Bootcamp. Check out: www.InnovationMain.com for the Rigorous and Intermediate Innovation Bootcamps to jumpstart innovations and build an innovation factory.
In 2012, Lehigh University launched a new master’s degree in technical entrepreneurship. The cross disciplinary approach opened the door to graduate school education in technical entrepreneurship for students from all academic backgrounds, creating a melting pot of experience, skills and aspirations in the classroom. This one-year, 30-credit professional master’s program (M.Eng.) in technical entrepreneurship helps student entrepreneurs create, refine, and commercialize intellectual property through the licensing or launching of a new business. Students in the program learn by experiencing the idea-to-venture process in an educational environment that’s hard-wired to support the development of novel, innovative, and commercially-viable technologies. Attendees will hear about the types of students from the first cohort, the perspective of the faculty members responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum, and lessons learned.
Sw7 is a tech accelerator in Africa that has mentored over 300 businesses. The document discusses how building high scale tech businesses in Africa requires focusing on building functioning funnels to acquire and convert customers efficiently. It also emphasizes getting the strategy right by differentiating and meeting customer needs, and how cloud businesses require selling in a way that customers are buying. The presentation provides insights on how cloud changes the business model to focus on metrics like customer lifetime value and cost of customer acquisition.
This document provides an overview of intellectual property protection for inventors. It discusses the importance of protecting inventions through patents, trademarks, and copyrights. It emphasizes conducting a prior art search to understand existing relevant technologies and avoid common mistakes like public use before filing. The document recommends working with experienced patent professionals early to strategically protect an invention's competitive advantages under the first-inventor-to-file system.
1. “21st Century Invention ”
for Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Manual Introduction
February 2011
(Tele-seminar and Workshop
Overview)
Richard Arnold
Inventor and President
www.inventors-of-america.com
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC
2. Don’t Let your Good Ideas
Get Lost in the Trash Bin of History!
Most Inventors and Entrepreneurs face daunting odds bringing and idea to market and
during business startup. They are almost certain to fail!
But you can make sure that your ideas have the “Right Stuff” to succeed in the 21st
Century market.
Go with training from Inventors of America!
3. Benefits that will occur for you when you work with Inventors of America!
Increased Efficiencies for “IP
development”
Team Effectiveness increases
World Wide
Smarter Analysis of new ideas with
Statistics & DOEs
“Hands on Training” tactics with
case studies
“Quick Risk” assessment methods
Best of the Past & Present
Methods for Invention &
Entrepreneurship
Higher Probability of Success for
new products and business
startup Dr. Granville Ott goes over
Design to Cost used for the TI 40
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC
4. “21st Century Invention ” Manual
Introduction Opportunities for review on
February 24thth & 25th
All about “21st Century Invention ” for Inventors and
Business Startups
Tele-seminar on Wednesday February 16th
Dial in to 712-775-7000 --- wait for the access code
To get the access code for the tele-seminar Call us at 214-
733-7298 or email us at rarnold@inventors-of-
america.com
“21st Century Invention Workshop and Manual
Introduction ” – Workshop sessions using the 21st
Century Invention Manual , on Thursday February
24th at the Hilton Garden Inn in Allen, TX. Just off of
Hwy75 and Bethany – Workshop starts at 8:00 AM
and ends at 5:00 PM
And on Friday , February 25th
• “Design to Cost ” during the morning and
• “Finance for Inventors & Entrepreneurs” in the
afternoon at the Hilton Garden Inn of Allen, TX
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC
5. 21st Century Invention – Thursday Morning Feb 24th
21st Century invention also
includes:
• Techniques for making
invention more efficient and
building your own 21st
Century Network
• “Hands-on Support” for
designing and building the
invention
• “IP” - Organization, Training
and Documentation
To register – send us an email
Learn how Steve Jobs and other at rarnold@inventors-of-
successful inventors and entrepreneurs america.com
do inventions and startups.
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC
6. Introduction to Design to Cost
Friday February 25th - Session -8:00
AM to 5:00 PM
“Design to Cost “for Inventors and
Entrepreneurs
• Developing Vision for Technology &
Markets
• Design to Cost methods
• Analyzing the market place
• Planning your breakthrough
• Being the most cost competitive
• Your chance to look over the
Inventors “Design to Cost Manual”
Register – send us an email at
rarnold@inventors-of-america.com
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC
7. Finance for Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Friday afternoon 1:00 to 5:00 PM Febraury
25th
“Finance in North Texas”
• Organization and your future
• Basics of finance for startup
• Planning for Success
• Manufacturing
• Marketing in the 21st Century
• Southside Engineering LLC opportunity for
business startup
• Get an early view of the Inventors
“Finance Manual”
To register – send us an email at
Chris Ott , President of Southside rarnold@inventors-of-america.com
Engineering, talks about “Financial
or call us at 214-733-7298
Seeding” for a Small Business.
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC
8. “Inventors” Rolls out 3 Manuals in 2011
Click onto Innovation- www.inventors-of-america.com
21st Century Invention, Design to Cost, & Finance for Inventors
1. Design to Cost – January 2011 –
learn the principles of how to
design and bring your inventions
to market below that of your
competitors.
2. 21st Century Invention –
February 2011 – learn how
invention occurs differently in the
21st Century and how to
document your inventions.
3. Finance for Inventors and
Entrepreneurs – April 2011 –
learn 21st Century Finance
Dr. Granville Ott in front of the Techniques and how to startup a
Picture of Hewlett & Packard at business using these principles.
the Tech Museum in San Jose, CA
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9. Your Future Success with
IP Development & Startup
Smithsonian Air & Space (left)
And Virgin’s Plans for 21st Century
Space Tourism (right)
To register – send us an email at
Transform your organization by calling us ? rarnold@inventors-of-america.com
or call us at 214-733-7298
Inventors-of-America & Technologist LLC