Inventors have lots of great ideas. Sometimes, though, they don’t know how to communicate them to the businesspeople who could finance their projects.
Today at Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, a few dozen people with big ideas are expected to attend a one-day workshop intended to help them cross the chasm between bright idea and marketplace reality. There is no charge to the inventors.
Doug Hall, a judge on the TV show “American Inventor” and CEO of a company that works with inventors, will lead the workshop.
“Inventors want to talk patents and technology,” he said. “Companies want to talk products and profits — what they can sell. That’s the challenge.”
The workshop is co-sponsored by Georgia Tech and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Hall said the government’s goal is to stimulate innovation nationwide.
The training session provides the inventor with an understanding of how the business world works, how much their idea may be worth, plus a listing in the USA National Innovation Marketplace, an online registry of inventions for potential buyers.
Atlanta is one stop in the workshop tour that’s also been to Chicago, Orlando and Philadelphia.
Inventors expected today have ideas ranging from a toilet water saver to a foldable kayak.
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