Participants can still register for the National Innovation Workshop, scheduled for November 3-4 at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. The workshops, which the U.S. Department of Energy's Inventions and Innovation Division holds throughout the country, provide practical guidance and information needed by inventors and innovative small businesses to develop and market their products and services. The Roanoke workshop will feature lectures and panel discussions on such topics as effectively describing your idea, protecting your idea, sources of information, commercializing your invention, estimating the value of your invention, licensing, structuring an organization to grow, business planning, early-stage financing, pending patent legislation, developing your prototype, and marketing methods, techniques, and practices for marketing and selling new technologies. Resources will be made available on technical and business data, books and publications of particular interest to inventors, and federal, state, and local programs that provide assistance for inventors.
Registration is on a space-available basis.
To register call 1-5182.