Course Overview
While bringing one invention to market is a crucial skill, developing a system and processes for long-term invention management is necessary for the success of your team's innovative ventures.
In this course, you will examine how to establish a system for invention management at your organization. By leading ideas through an official documentation process, you will discover strategies for helping ideas to become inventions. You will also develop a plan to stimulate ideas and finalize details around the invention or innovation. You will then refine a practice for guiding inventions through the development process. To support the invention management process, you will explore best practices for working with lawyers, giving you a key skill set for invention and intellectual property (IP) management. By the end of this course, you will have a plan in place to create and manage an invention system in your organization and facilitate a mindset geared toward unlocking the commercial potential of inventions.
You are required to have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience before taking this course:
- Understanding the Invention
- Developing a Unique Value Proposition
- Securing Inventions, IP, and Bioproperty
- Preparing for Commercialization and Implementation
- Partnerships and Contracts
Key Course Takeaways
- Establish a system for collecting inventions
- Create a system for stimulating invention
- Select the most suitable pathway for an invention
- Examine best practices for working with IP/patent lawyers
- Develop a plan for innovation management
Who Should Enroll
- Entrepreneurs
- IP managers
- Invention and innovation managers
- Engineers
- Scientists
- R&D and business development professionals
- Tech transfer professionals
- Business managers
- Consultants
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