Idea, Innovations, and Inventions

Innovators learn how to take your creative ideas, evaluate them, and protect them. Turn your ideas into business goals, and then achieve those goals.

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Invent your way to financial security!

Successful inventing begins with a lot of ideas. Join other inventors and entrepreneurs to learn proven methods to generate millions of new product ideas.

Maximize the income from your ideas!

Successful inventors and businesses only invest in their best ideas. Join other inventors and entrepreneurs to learn how to pick your best ideas to bring to market.

Protect Your Assets!

Your creative work is valuable and needs protection like any other asset. Join other innovators and entrepreneurs to learn about the many ways you can protect your intellectual property.

Don't get ripped off!

Without a patent anyone can steal and sell your product idea. Join other inventors and entrepreneurs and learn to patent and protect your inventions.
 

Protect your creative work for FREE!

Protect your creative work for FREE! Legal protections are available to you or your company at little or no cost. Join other innovators and entrepreneurs and learn to protect your creative expression.

Turn your invention into cash!

Companies are hungry for new product ideas. Join other inventors and entrepreneurs and learn to license your inventions to manufacturers for steady income.

Turn your best idea into a profitable product!

Turn your best idea into a profitable product! By contract manufacturing, anyone can instantly start a manufacturing business with little or no start-up cost. Join other inventors and entrepreneurs and learn inexpensive low-risk ways to manufacture and distribute your product.

This program is designed to help innovators take their creative ideas, turn them into business goals, and then achieve those goals. Whether you want to check the viability of an idea, build a manufacturing business, or license your intellectual property to another company, this 10-month program will give you the tools to get there.

Program Structure:

Benefits to You:

• Personalized assistance with all phases of innovation launch and growth
• Receive methods of business management improvement
• Gain practical “how-to” methods to organize and speed your launch
• A wealth of resources at your fingertips
• Protect the confidentiality of your idea
• Learn ways to maximize the sale price of your innovation’s patent or license
• Receive confidential one-on-one advising to improve your business processes for bottom line growth
• Connects participants with other innovators in the area, where they can learn from each other in a supportive environment.

If you are an entrepreneur that wants help getting your ideas into the marketplace, this program will help you achieve your goals.

Frank Plaisted

Frank Plaisted brings a wealth of product development, technical and business knowledge to his role at the Business Development Center.  Frank Plaisted will guide you step-by-step through the process of turning your ideas into income. Through instruction and one-on-one advising, you can have access to Frank’s twenty-seven years of experience and training in all aspects of new product development:

• Innovation and product design
• Engineering (P.E. and B.S.E.E.)
• Patenting and trademarks
• Prototyping and product testing
• Manufacturing
• Cost accounting
• Marketing and market research
• Project, product, operations management

Let Frank be your private business consultant, advisor, and coach.

His experience from start-up to fortune 500 has given Frank insider knowledge of the innovation system behind the success and wealth of entrepreneurs and corporations. Now you can have access to his insider knowledge to help you blaze your own path to success and financial independence.

Millions of creative people have made millions of dollars from their ideas. Frank will tell you how they did it and how you can do it too. As an engineer and product development researcher, Frank has participated in, observed, or studied the development and commercialization of hundreds of new products.

Start your innovation journey today by contacting Frank Plaisted at plaistedf@lanecc.edu or call 541.463.5255. Cost is $649.