This two-day course is targeted first to help the student understand the technical innovation process and unlock the innovative powers within the attendee and, second, to ground the student in the art and science of patent protection.

Instructor:

Dr. John Hershey is a senior member of the technical staff at the general Electric Global Research Center. He has forty years of engineering experience in the government intelligence community, Dept. of Commerce, and private industry. He holds 116 US patents, has coauthored 2 encyclopedia entries and 7 books on system theory, LEO satellites, spread spectrum communications, and, the latest, Cryptography Demystified, in the McGraw-Hill series. He coauthored the seminal paper "White Space Patenting" that was published in Intellectual Property Today and he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to secure communications. He has served as an adjunct faculty member for several universities and as an ABET program evaluator.

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What You Will Learn:

• The power of dimensional thinking - the dimensionality of the innovator's vision and the innovation
• The innovative cycle
• How to measure innovation and its impact
• The different types of technical innovative activity and their most effective uses
• Tools for enabling innovation
• Key issues of patent protection that innovators must know and practice in order to be outstandingly effective and valuable
Course Outline:

1. The dimensional mindset - when to be a technician and when to be a visionary.

2. How to perform quantitative innovation - the good, the bad, the ugly.

3. How to perform qualitative innovation - envisioning in or more than one dimension.

4. The theory of system leverage.

5. The "bottom line" - not a number but rather a mindset and attitude for the accomplished innovator in order to effectively link the innovative effort to the bottom line requirements.

6. Regulation - a gift of opportunity.

7. The criticality of clear expression.

8. Modules for leading discussion groups back home.

9. The utility of the concept of innovative "white space."

10. How to measure innovation - first looking backwards and using that perspective as insight to shaping the future.

11. The basics of the patenting process and different ways to use it.

12. Short reviews of spread spectrum, orbital mechanics, and cryptography as a basis for real examples in innovative history.

13. Focusing innovation using transfer functions.

14. Understanding innovators and bringing the innovator out of yourself.

Tuition:

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