Werner, The first thing you should do is patent your work, I cant stress how important this is if you are trying to do something in the comercial world. If your idea is that good, you MUST create as many hurdles as possible to make it difficult for competitors to enter your market. Scott. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Technology transfer anyone? Author: pic microcontroller discussion list at INTERNET Date: 11/11/96 01:18 Dear fellow Piclist members All this talk about Code Protection etc made me think... Many people here on the Piclist are designing all sorts of weird and wonderfull products all the time. Many of which could become very profitable products if manufactured and marketed proffesionally on a global market. Unfortunately success stories are far less frequent than one would like, purely because most engineers and designers simply don't have the marketing skills and drive required to make money out of their ideas. Now, I'm sure somewhere in the world there must be companies in existance that "buys" good ideas and actually make money out of them. The advantage of PIC based products is that the designer can actually ensure that he continiues to receive his royalties by just supplying the manufacturing firm with the code protected pre-programmed chips. This option is particulary attractive to people like myself sitting here in relative low technology parts of the world. Now, my question is this. Do anybody know of companies that would consider such technology transfers? Maybe there are even a few people here on this Piclist that owns such companies or works for one? I myself have just finished a 16C71 based Variometer (measures rate of climb and descent) for Paragliding and Handgliding and I think if this gets marketed correctly, it could become quite a profitable product. However, here in South Africa, I could consider myself lucky if I get to sell ten or twenty per year. So if I could get hold of an overseas company that would like to consider a tecnology transfer, then it would suit me just great! It would be interesting to hear about other Piclist members experience or comments in this regard. Cheers Werner -- Werner Terreblanche Tel +27 21 7102251 Fax +27 21 721278 wterreb@plessey.co.za (work) OR werner@aztec.co.za (home)