New Approach for Independent Inventors and Designers

New Approach Development, LLC provides learning seminars, materials and consulting services to coach innovators in the development of new designs, processes and products.

1. Walk through the self-guided WebQuest below.

2. Request New Approach Innovation Updates to be notified of upcoming events, new resources for creativity and product development.

Peter Russo, president of New Approach Development, LLC, provides Innovation Coaching expertise to revitalize, focus and take your ideas to market.

Product Exploration WebQuest

Start an Inventor's Journal.

Develop Your Idea

Get Creative- Torrance Test of Creative Thinking
- Fluency (# of ideas)
- Flexibility (# categories – container, communication, toy…)
- Originality (unique and unusual ideas)
- Elaboration (detail and change in form)
Source: http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~ice/creativhome.htm

Brainstorm your idea. Then, visit Innovation Network and mindmap your thoughts to refine and evaluate your idea:

Answer these critical questions - What is the market need and opportunity ...What problem does your product solve? Why isn't anyone providing this product already? Whow will buy and who will use this product/service? Are there enough people willing and able to make the purchase?

Search for multiple solutions.
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one we have." – Albert Einstein

Protect Your Idea

Visit the following web links and determine how you can protect your intellectual property.

Develop Bus Plan

Visit the following web sites and draft a business plan to determine the production and profit possibilties of your idea.

Persist

“Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” - Thomas Edison