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I don't know much about this site, and I don't even know if this has been suggested, but I though that the site seemed like a good idea to begin with...I just thought it might be useful to someone for me to throw in my two cents. Regardless of all that hype, the description almost entirely speaks for
itself...this site may profit (either through monetary service charge or through popularity) if it linked employers and designers with the geniuses who are making the suggestions on the site. Chew on it?
Same general direction
http://www.halfbake...ea/halfbakery_20IPO
If you think you can make money with an idea exchange market, by all means, go for it. [jutta, Mar 09 2001]
Other idea exchanges.
http://www.halfbake...ditorial/links.html
Some of them involve money in various business models. I'm sure that if one of them strikes it big, we'll hear about it. [jutta, Mar 09 2001]
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[You're welcome!]| — | jutta,
Mar 09 2001, last modified Mar 13 2001 |
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My view is that a consultancy is probably the best route for this as this way people can get the advice they want rather than risk buying off-the-peg ideas. Some corporations actually have their own brains trusts of lateral thinkers dedicated to this kind of thing and rest assured that the members of such groups probably know of the HalfBakery. But other people might want to buy this in for special purposes - in fact I believe this is what Peter offers. |
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Aristotle, I'm responsible for the function you describe for my company. It may interest you or others to know that I have not yet seen a single idea on HalfBakery that would prompt a company in my industry to try to contact the author for the purpose of commercializing the idea. However, I have seen a few ideas that describe something either already under development, or something already tried and discarded by my industry. Now, my industry occupies a smaller part of the average HalfBaker's "mind-share" than computers, the internet, telecommunications, or entertainment, for instance, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the professional creators in most industries are half a step or so ahead of most HalfBakers. |
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That's no reason to give up hope, though. |
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Even on forums where I use my real name I try to never to talk about my work or who I work for. However I do largely agree with [beauxault] except to note that I have seen some potential prior art here for some related areas. This is not too unexpected as this is a *recreational* forum and quite a few people here probably have to be careful about prior art. |
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As a followup, I recently saw an idea posted here that relates to my industry, and has in some respects been commercialized, but in other respects is under development. So it represents possibly one of the most commercially viable ideas I've seen here. It had four negative votes, one positive vote, three negative annotations, and no positive annotations. |
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It's the sniper perch, isn't it? |
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[Beauxeault] So which idea was it then? |
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Yesyesyesabsolutely...not whether, but who? How (by
what sort of common standard) to evaluate or to escrow
(bytes of) "intellectual property (define)"? |
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In fact I think this calls for some sort of sudden, ad hoc
upstart inauguration of its own "out-school" of conceptual
criticism RE: just this sort of renegade, tangentiac, AD(H)D
-as-spontaneous-school-of-behavioral-cum-evolutionary-psy
chology shtick to rent the very rubric of consensual
representation. |
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Several years ago there was a site -- I believe it was called www.ideas.com -- that did exactly what you suggest. It sold ideas to corporations or anyone willing to buy them. The site eventually folded. (The site existing under www.ideas.com as I write this in Jan 2004 is not the same site.) |
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