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It sounds like your trying to develop a market to sell ideas. As much as I wish this were possible, the reality is you can't give away ideas for free let alone
by danieltillett 10y ago
It sounds like your trying to develop a market to sell ideas. As much as I wish this were possible, the reality is you can't give away ideas for free let alone sell them.
The basic problem is people are more attached to their own crappy ideas than someone else's brilliant idea.
- will_brown 10y agoBrilliant ideas often lose to crappy ideas because of market incumbents, and even when brilliant ideas win it can take patents and fortunes to do so, Tesla:AC::Edison:DC. IP on its own is more than a crappy or brilliant idea. Take any startup they might have a trademarked name, logo, a domain, or patent...We know the vast majority of startups will fail" and it isn't because they all have crappy Ideas, some might have both crap ideas and valuable IP, but even crappy IP can still be valuable. Alternatively, As I mentioned above Universities have patents but are often unable to bring them to market, isn't it unfair to assume unused University patents are crappy ideas since they aren't competing in the market? I think if the market had easy access to these patents (to buy or license) we would find there is a lot of value in unused IP (both brilliant and crappy) not unlike UBER/AirBNB created found a lot of value in assets being underutilized by owners.