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ICKC values our relationship with our sponsors and encourages a mutually beneficial connection with our members.  ICKC only recommends ICKC sponsor companies and members of the United Inventor's Association (UIA), which functions as a watchdog organization for inventors.

Our board of directors screens all sponsor and does not list any company that has been reported to provide poor customer service.

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The companies listed below are ICKC Platinum, Gold and Silver Sponsors.  Contact information for Meeting Speakers, who are not Corporate sponsors can be found by searching our
Previous Meeting downloadable agendas.    Companies are listed only once, even though they may provide expertise in many areas of the invention process.

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Inventing 101

Listen as Steve Pope and Carrie Jeske talk Basic Inventing on National Public Radio (NPR) KCUR.

Testimonial
"I was delighted to listen to your session on “up to date.” I am currently teaching a course on creative thinking and learning , and have been for decades. In all the years of teaching this course, I have never heard an interview that was so focused on the heart of what we need to do and value in education."  Associate Professor, University of Kansas


Idea Development Process
"Successful inventing is as much an art, as a science!  There is an established project
sequence to be implemented.  There's also something to be said for unpredictablity
of the right idea at the right time with the right people."
  Carrie Jeske, ICKC president


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1. VALIDATION
If an idea is unique and marketable or already avialable online?  

www.google.com       
www.yahoo.com     
www.msn.com   

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2. EVALUATING
If the idea could become a profitable business?
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3. SEARCHING
For and idea's prier art or intellectual protection.
www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html  
4. FUNDING
The development of an idea into a patent or product.
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5. PROTOTYPING
An idea into a 3D product.
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6. PATENTING
An idea for intellectial protection.
7. MARKETING
A product to start a business and sell or license the patent rights.
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