Foundations of Innovation

The Office of Innovation and New Ventures has launched a new resource for faculty and staff to provide their students a background in intellectual property and innovative idea development.

Foundations of Innovation is a collection of self-paced training modules designed to allow faculty, staff and students to explore the process of developing early-stage innovative ideas into potential new products and resources. Each module contains a short 20-30 minute video along with downloadable materials to facilitate the process of idea evaluation and assessment. A self-assessment/quiz is provided at the end of each module for those who’d like to test their understanding of a topic.

Course topics include:

The IP Zone: The Intellectual Property (IP) Zone provides basic training of various forms of intellectual property protection, such as patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, in addition to strategies for conducting a prior art search to identify similar or competing ideas.
General Business/Service Development: This module provides a step-by-step framework for understanding the customer, its market and future considerations for advancing a product/service idea.
Digital Content Development: Between 80-90% of mobile applications are abandoned just after a single use, so it takes more than an idea for a new app to succeed. This module dives into the key elements needed to align digital content with customer needs and industry standards.
Biomedical Development: Only 1 out of 5,000 new therapeutics overcome regulatory and industry hurdles to reach the marketplace. This module focuses on developing a target product profile and identifying key go/no-go milestones to attract early stage funding.

More information about this valuable resource is available at go.ecu.edu/foundations. Access to content is available upon completion of the registration link at this site.