Invention is Alive and Well

If you have any question about the passion or interest in invention, here's a few tidbits for you.

First, the growing number of reality shows featuring inventors:
ABC's American Inventor
PBS Everyday Edisons
The New Inventors (Australia)

Second, the growth of invention brokers and service bureaus, though many are unfortunately getting rich on the backs of inventors (versus making money based on success in the market).  I'll be writing a separate post on this whole trend and what's being done about it.

Finally... and what spurred me to write this post this morning was the overwhelming response we've had to our own little inventor search contest.  In partnership and support of EntrepreneurshipWeek USA (just ended), Venture2 decided to conduct an inventor search of our own, with the grand prize being some free publicity and 2 months support in helping an entrepreneur get connected to a leading company with their idea (at no cost of course, or it wouldn't be a 'prize'!). Here's the link to our inventor page for more details.

So anyway, this morning, our website statistics show over 43,000 hits and over 4,000 visitors to our Venture2 website, in one day!  (Our corporate website normally averages between 50-100 visitors per day)  Though it's intended primarily as a local event to be held at our Launching Pad facility, we're getting applications from as far away as Vietnam!  So we'll probably allow a few of these 'remote' applications via teleconference if they're strong ideas. 

It gives me a lot of pleasure to see such interest in creativity and invention.  I hope that we can do just a little through this event to inspire a few more inventors, and hopefully get at least one great idea connected to a great company that can scale it up!

Stay tuned!

Comments

[Kermit Williams]

Dont patent that idea with a document form it date the first date of concept . patents really are no good its many ways around patents ! a patent search is really no good! why all inventors and companies dont patent they ideas they just make them stamps are better than patents a patent can take time by the time you patent a idea they been made it now your idea is no good! thiers only one way and its cheaper document the date or your patent is no good in court your learn like i did that your patent might be used already or documented or stamped then you will lose your rights for that patent you spend all that money on and not all ideas need patents .

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[James Todhunter]

Yeah! Invention and innovation are alive and well. This post points out some evidence that at the rubber-meets-the-road level of entrepreneurial inventorship there is plenty of activity. From my own observations in talking with industry analysts on the topic, innovation is alive and well at the corporate level as well. Every analyst I have interacted with has stated that interest in innovation as a critical success factor at the CXO level is still growing strongly. The chatter forecasting the death of innovation seems to be premature.