Process / IDC Inventors Guide / Chapter 1: Introduction

Inventing something can be a thrilling experience. Unfortunately it can also be a costly and very long process and the reality is that most ideas don’t make it to become successful products. For a specialist product design and development consultancy like IDC, solving problems and turning ideas into reality is something we do every day, but how do you make sure the product is a success. Just making your idea isn’t enough. You need to make sure it will make you money.

To help you take the first steps with your invention IDC have created this guide to break the process down into five key steps:

• Assessing your idea
• Protecting your idea
• Developing your idea
• Selling your idea
• Funding your idea