Course Name: Invent iT
Course Purpose: The purpose of this course is to explore with the students, the different stages involved in the invention or creation of a product.
Course Duration: 1.5 hour per week for 12 Weeks.
Course Schedule:
- Week 1: Initial Idea
- Week 2: Questions, Research
- Week 3: Expanded Idea
- Week 4: Prototype
- Putting the Idea to Work
- Prototype Testing and Analysis
- Week 5: Copyrights & Patents
- What are copyrights and patents?
- A brief look at the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office, www.uspto.gov
- Week 6: Financing
- Angel Investors
- The Government as an Investor
- The Inventor as an Investor
- Weeks 7 & 8: Product – Actual Tangible Product (Consumer Utility)
- Product Testing [Beta Stage]
- User Feedback
- Product Improvement – Adjustments, Modifications
- Product Release
- Mass Production
- Mass Marketing
- Product Availability – Work Local Think Global (Local Audience, Global Audience)
- Week 9: User Feedback
- Encourage Continuous User (or Customer) Feedback
- Incentivize User Feedback
- Act on User Feedback – Taking Feedback Seriously
- Week 10: Constant & Continuous Improvements – The Kaizen Principle
- “Kaizen” – Japanese for, “Change for better”
- Weeks 11 & 12: Course Revision and Individual or Group Project Presentation
“A nation that must grow and be prosperous needs citizens who would dedicate themselves to taking time out to think, analyze and work on scientific/technological research.”
“A key area of emphasis for us, should be to inspire inventions and innovations, maturation and sustainability of the Science & Technology sector of our national life…”
“To excel in Science and Technology, developing countries need to harness the power of teamwork, effective organization and proper maintenance culture. Inventors and innovators need to be discovered, encouraged, rewarded and celebrated…”
- Developed by Oghenekaro E. Akamune for: A Day in the Life of a Technology Developer, aDay © All Rights Reserved.
Photo Credits: Courtesy, Innoson Nigeria and Frog Design.
Photo Credits: Courtesy, Innoson Nigeria and Frog Design.
