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In this Section
Inventor Groups and Associations National Organizations
United Inventors Association of the USA
National Patent Association
National Congress of Inventor Organizations
International Organizations
International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA).
Return to Table of Contents for this guide | Return to index of all guides | Back to the top of this page State Organizations ALASKA
Alaska Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Inventors Institute of Alaska
ALABAMA
Invent Alabama
ARKANSAS
Inventors Congress Inc.
ARIZONA
Inventors Association of Arizona
CALIFORNIA
Inventors Forum
Inventors Alliance
Inventors Alliance of Northern California
Central Valley Inventor’s Assn.
Contra Costa Inventors Club
Inventors Forum of San Diego
Bruce Sawyer Center
American Inventor Network
Idea to Market Network
CANADA
Inventors Alliance of Canada/America - Toronto & Buffalo, NY Chapters
British Columbia Inventors’ Society
Inter Atlantic Inventors Club
Saskatchewan Research Council
Waterloo - Wellington Inventors Club
Women’s Inventor’s Project - Toronto Canada
COLORADO
Rocky Mtn. Inventors Congress
CONNECTICUT
Inventors Assn. of Connecticut
Innovators Guild
DELAWARE
Delaware Entrepreneurs Forum
FLORIDA
Inventors Soc. of South Florida
Edison Inventors Association, Inc.
Tampa Bay Inventors’ Council
Inventors Council of Central Florida
Emerald Coast Inventors Society
Space Coast Inventors Guild
GEORGIA
Inventor Assoc. of Georgia, Inc.
IOWA
Drake University Inventure Program
IDAHO
East Idaho Inventors Forum
ILLINOIS
Inventors’ Council
Illinois Innovators & Inventor’s Club
Hunts Ergonomics / Ill Group
INDIANA
Indiana Inventors Association
Inventors Council—Wabash
KANSAS
Inventors Assoc. of So. Central Kansas
Kansas Association of Inventors
KENTUCKY
Central Kentucky Inventors. & Entrepreneurs
LOUISIANA
Louisiana Inventors Association
MARYLAND / DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Inventors Network of the Capital Area
Assoc. for Science, Technology & Innovation
MASSACHUSETTS
Cape Cod Inventors Association
Greater Boston Inventors Association
Inventors Association of New England
Innovators Resource Network (Please note that group meets in Springfield, MA)
Worcester Area Inventors
MAINE
Portland Inventors Forum - Dept Industrial Co-op
MICHIGAN
Inventors Clubs of America
Inventors Assn. of Metro Detroit
Inventors Council of Mid-Michigan
Inventors Club of Michigan
MINNESOTA
Society of Minnesota Inventors
Inventors’ Network
Minnesota Inventors Congress
MISSOURI
Women’s Inventor Project
Mid-America Inventors Association
Inventors Association of St. Louis
MISSISSIPPI
Society of Mississippi Inventors
MONTANA
Yellowstone Inventors
Montana Inventors Assn.
NORTH DAKOTA
North Dakota Inventors Congress
NEBRASKA
Lincoln Inventors Association
NEVADA
Nevada Inventors Association
Inventors Society of Southern Nevada
NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Inventors Assn.
NEW JERSEY
Jersey Shore Inventors Club
National Society of Inventors
New Jersey Entrepreneurs Forum
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Inventors Club
NEW YORK
NY Society of Professional Inventors
Inventors Alliance of America - Rochester Chapter
Inv. Alliance of America-Buffalo Chapter
OHIO
Inventors Network of Greater Akron
Inventors Council of Cincinnati
Inventors Connection Greater Cleveland
Inventors Network, Inc.
Inventors Council of Canton
Inventors Council of Dayton
Youngstown-Warren Inv. Assn.
Innovation Alliance
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Inventors Congress
Week-End Entrepreneurs
OREGON
So. Oregon Inventors Council
PENNSYLVANIA
American Society of Inventors
Pennsylvania Inventors Assn.
Northwest Inventors Council
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Inventors Association
SOUTH CAROLINA
Carolina Inventors Council
SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakota Inventors Congress
TENNESSEE
Tennessee Inventors Assn.
Inventors’ Association of Middle Tennessee and South Kentucky
TEXAS
Amarillo Inventors Association
Houston Inventors Association
Network of American Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Technology Advocates of San Antonio / Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Texas Inventors Association
VERMONT
Inventors Network of Vermont
VIRGINIA
Inventors Network of the Capital Area
Blue Ridge Inventor’s Club
WASHINGTON
Inventors Network
Tri-Cities Enterprise Assn. (No longer active)
WISCONSIN
Central Wisconsin Inventors Association
Inventors Network of Wisconsin
Return to Table of Contents for this guide | Return to index of all guides | Back to the top of this page Argentina (AAI) : aai@ciudad.com.ar
Belgium (Chambre belge des
inventeurs) :
eureka@cpexpo.com
or
Bolivia (AIB) : arellanoher@latinmail.com Brazil (ANI) : genius@alphanet.com.br or www.inventores.com.br Cameroon (CAII): Ekottomd@faciil.cm Canada (Women-W.I.P.) : womenip@interlog.com or www.interlog.com/~womenip Canada (AIQ-Quebec) : invention@inventarium.com or www.inventarium.com Côte d’Ivoire: mdtraore@bailo.net Croatia : pavao.havlicek@hztk.tel.hr Cuba (ANIR) : anora@cepes.uh.cu Cyprus : costas@cs.ucy.ac.cy Denmark (DaFFO) : info@daffo.dk or webmaster@daffo.dk or www.daffo.dk Egypt : MHAMALWY@frcu.eun.eg Estonia (EIA) : edvin.nugis@mail.ee Finland (KeKe) : kekery@megabaud.fi France (FNAFI) : fnafi@wanadoo.fr or www.invention-innovation.com Hong Kong (HKIA) : hkia@hkia.com.hk or www.hkia.com.hk Hungary (MAFE) : genius@inventor.hu or www.inventor.hu Iceland (LHM) : hugvit@vortex.is or www.vortex.is Japan (J.I.I.I.) : t-tanaka@jiii.or.jp or www.jiii.or.jp Kenya (KAI) : jawuor@hotmail.com Korea, Rep. of (KIPA) : www.kipa.org (in Korean only) Kuwait (Kuwait Scientific Club) : mhd@ncc.moc.kw or www.ksclub.org Malaysia (MINDS) : TSO@minds.org.my or www.minds.org.my Morocco (AMII) : lbelkbir@fasr.ac.am Netherlands (NOVU) : novu_nl@compuserve.com or www.novu.nl (in Dutch) or www.novu.nl/english.htm (abstract in English) Nigeria (NAI) : nai100@hotmail.com Norway (NOF) : www.norskoppfinnerforening.no (in Norwegian only) Peru (S.I.P.) : ccabrera1@usmp.edu.pe or aher@iprolink.ch Philippines (FIS) : fis@sun1.dost.gov.ph Philippines (WIAPI-Women) : lmm@fnri.dost.gov.ph Poland (PZSWIR) : r.wieczorkowski@pc.orgmasz.waw.pl or www.orgmasz.waw.pl Romania (Société des inventeurs de Roumanie) : mailini@ini.tuiasi.ro or www.tuiasi.ro Russia (VOIR) : voir@ardasenov.ru or www.ardasenov.ru/voir.htm (in Russian only) Singapore (SIDA) : sinvent_da@hotmail.com Slovakia (SZVaZ) : zsvts@rainside.sk or www.rainside.sk/zsvts Spain (Club de Inventores Españoles) : invent@conecta.es or www.inventoseinventores.com Sweden (SUF) : suf@invent.se or www.invent.se Tunisia (ATI) : ass.inventeurs@gnet.tn UK (IPI) : ipi@invent.org.uk or www.invent.org.uk USA (UIA/USA) : UIAUSA@aol.com or www.uiausa.org Return to Table of Contents for this guide | Return to index of all guides | Back to the top of this page Below are ten simple strategies, or tools, for sharpening your perception and focusing your thinking in a more comprehensive, effective, and efficient way. Thinking tools will enable you to have a broad and inclusive viewpoint. The tools create a framework for defining a situation. That framework will improve your ability to consider consequences before you take action. Our modern lives, both business and personal, are very fast paced and full of action. We often confuse action with accomplishment and frequently jump to action without enough thought. We love to take action and see what happens. If it is good, we keep going; if it is bad, we stop and clean up the mess we have created. This strategy is better than doing nothing at all; however, it is inefficient, and the pain or mistake rate is extremely high.
Tool 1
--Consequences and Sequels
Tool 2
--Pluses, Minus, Interesting
Tool 3
--Recognize, Analyze, and Divide
Tool 4
--Consider All Factors
Tool 5
--Aims, Goals, and Objectives
Tool 6
--Alternatives, Possibilities, and Choices
Tool 7
--Other People's Views
Tool 8
--Key Values Involved
Tool 9
--First Important Priorities
Tool 10
--Design/Decision, Outcome, Channels, and Action
Return to Table of Contents for this guide | Return to index of all guides | Back to the top of this page Coming Soon! Return to Table of Contents for this guide | Return to index of all guides | Back to the top of this page Assessing Commercial Potential Is There a Market for My Innovation? Most people with a new idea have checked around - maybe some local retail stores and sales outlets - and determined that there's nothing like their product on the market. On occasion, there may a similar product, but it didn't have the same unique features. Likewise, they have conducted some informal research, asking friends and relatives their opinions about the product, and have received a very positive response. Everyone feels that their invention will make a million. When asked the question "Is there a market for your product?" the answer is invariably, "Oh, yes!" We call this type of vague generalization about an idea's potential as more of a "gut feeling.” And while we believe that gut feelings and intuitions are valid, most inventors fail to go beyond this initial starting point to really dig in and get statistics and information about their product and the market potential. Prove It To Me! Now, from the point of view of an investor, licensee, or venture capitalist, or someone who is considering investing or financing your product in some way, they're going to want more substantiation than just a gut feeling along with some informal research as back-up support for your claims. A few opinions from family and friends aren't going to be enough to convince anybody to invest in your product. These business people want you to prove it to them. They want solid statistics. They want facts. They want data. And they want to see it in writing, not tossed off the top of your head. They want to know where you got the information, when you got the information, and how you got the information that supports your claims. The more of this you have, the easier it will be to present and close a prospective deal. Ironically, you may find that not all of the prospective contacts will actually read all the data, or care about all of the information you have. But you never know who will want what information at any one point in time, so having as much of it as possible will help increase your chances of success, because you'll be prepared for just about anything and everything. You won't be thrown off guard by a question(s) that you hadn't thought about. And, best of all, in the process of gathering all of this material, you actually become an "expert" about your product based on research and study, not on speculation and wishful ness. Because you will be much more confident as a result of having the proper supportive data in your business dealings about your product, you will come across as a professional and will not seem like a naive "wannabe.” Too many inventors skip this marketability research part and go straight to the patent and prototyping stage because nobody has explained to them how important this phase is. However digging up this back-up support may also help you reduce the risks of marketing this invention. While there are never any guarantees, being as certain about the product's marketability will greatly increase your chances of success. TIP: In this initial research phase, it is also important that you remain "neutral" about your idea while you're doing the research so that you can let go of the idea if you happen to find out that it is a "no- go.” Finding this out in the early stages could help you save thousands of dollars that would otherwise be spent on useless patents, prototypes, manufacturing, etc. |
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