An edition of The WRTI Book of Practical Inventing
(2013)
The WRTI Book of Practical Inventing
by Alan Finn
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This book is intended to be a practical guide to all those inventors, actual or would-be, those who have yet to take their first real steps toward making their new product or service dreams come true. The Wessex Round Table of Inventors (WRTI) is an inventors club based at Southampton Solent University. It exists as a mutual forum to help like-minded individuals with their inventions.
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2013
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Content
1. Developing Ideas – the thinking process
2. Validating the business potential – will it sell?
3. Searching – for prior art & conducting research
4. Protecting Ideas & Intellectual Property – the foundations of success
5. Business Planning – planning the commercialisation of your ideas
6. Raising funds – obtaining the money to make it all happen
7. Making Prototypes – an activity which feeds back into improved design
8. Independent Testing of Prototypes – Crucial test results to show to investors
9. Bringing Inventions to Market – Doing it alone, manufacturing, JVs, franchising
10. Bringing Inventions to Market – Licensing
11. CE Marking – ensuring your design conforms to standards & is manufacturable
12. Marketing Communications & Publicity – Why? To whom? How?
13. Sales
14. Knowing when to let go – achieving your life’s goals
15. Further Reading
16. Acknowledgements of Contributing Authors
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