Inventing

Thought Leaders

5 Things to Look for When Hiring a Patent Portfolio Manager

Hiring the right patent portfolio manager is critical to maximizing your enterprise's intellectual property (IP) potential. A competent manager must possess a blend of these five key competencies.

Thought Leaders

Should You Hire an Invention Development Consultant or Handle It on Your Own? Here's How to Decide.

You've got an idea for the next great product, but now you've got to turn it into reality. Should you hire an invention development consultant or strike out on your own?

Starting a Business

This Founder and Inventor Overcame Early Setbacks to Create a Successful Company (and a Temperature-Controlled Coffee Mug)

Cold scrambled eggs actually became the catalyst for Ember's first product, a temperature-controlled coffee mug.

Thought Leaders

The Top 10 Industries to License Your New Product Ideas in 2021

Where to target your creativity this year.

Thought Leaders

5 Inventing and Licensing Trends That Will Dominate In 2021

What to know as you're preparing for the year ahead.

Growing a Business

Protecting Your Critical Inventions On A Tight Budget

A three-step system to get the most value with little cost.

Technology

How to de-risk innovation

In a country where there are 1.3 billion and in a world with over 6 billion more people, you have to make sure you know your reason for innovation

Growing a Business

10 Things You Didn't Realize Were Invented in the 1990s

From Google.com to Nintendo 64 -- there's much to attribute to the 1990s.

Starting a Business

The Simplest Ideas Can Be Extremely Profitable. Here's Proof.

Gene Luoma solved a universal problem -- clogged drains -- with a strip of plastic from his garage. His device has sold 33 million units.

Science & Technology

5 Ways to Create an Almost-There Prototype Marketing Video

Building it makes your idea real; video captures it visually. Do less of the first and more of the second to test the market sooner.

Growing a Business

The 4 Biggest Mistakes Inventors Make

Product development is a business. You can't afford rookie errors.

Data & Recovery

Winning at Inventing Is a Numbers Game

Inventors too often focus on patents and expensive prototypes when what they really need is proof of demand.

Marketing

Have a Lot of Clever Ideas? License Them to the Novelty Gift Industry.

When I walked into Hallmark and saw "Sweet Darts," darts inscribed with the words 'I'm Stuck On You," I smiled. Seeing my name on the back never got old.

Growing a Business

Are You Trying to Protect Your Idea -- or Sell It?

Do you really need a patent? It all depends on who you ask.