The WRTI Book of Practical Inventing
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788740307641
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Developing Ideas – the thinking process; title: 2. Validating the business potential – will it sell?; title: 3. Searching – for prior art & conducting research; title: 4. Protecting Ideas & Intellectual Property – the foundations of success; title: 5. Business Planning – planning the commercialisation of your ideas; title: 6. Raising funds – obtaining the money to make it all happen; title: 7. Making Prototypes – an activity which feeds back into improved design; title: 8. Independent Testing of Prototypes – Crucial test results to show to investors; title: 9. Bringing Inventions to Market – Doing it alone, manufacturing, JVs, franchising; title: 10. Bringing Inventions to Market – Licensing; title: 11. CE Marking – ensuring your design conforms to standards & is manufacturable; title: 12. Marketing Communications & Publicity – Why? To whom? How?; title: 13. Sales; title: 14. Knowing when to let go – achieving your life’s goals; title: 15. Further Reading; title: 16. Acknowledgements of Contributing Authors