Catalog of organizations that assist inventors: Activities and services, Edition 2

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7109288· OSTI ID:7109288

Several different types of national, state, and local organizations and programs, both public and private, assist independent inventors. The number of such organizations and programs is growing. Most of them work independently of each other, often without knowledge of each other. The staff of the Energy-Related Inventions Program (ERIP) at the US Department of Energy (DOE) realized that: many of these organizations are quite capable of doing innovative things to assist inventors, and many have extensive, highly original programs aimed at organizing the inventor's social world; no mechanism has existed for these organizations to communicate with each other; evaluation of organizational success or failure in assisting inventors has been lacking; and some of these organizations could benefit from technical assistance and small amounts of financial assistance to encourage innovation in assisting inventors.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA). Energy Systems Div.
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/CE
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 7109288
• Report Number(s): ANL/ESD/TM-3; ON: DE90008158
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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