The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone gives you new and exciting ways to make money from your interests, insights, and inventions. With the phenomenon of ?open source innovation? it?s easier than ever to turn your ideas and expertise into profits. This book shows how lone inventors are being supplanted by everyday experts using blogs, virtual communities, and microbusinesses to bring ideas and inventions to fruition. Whether you just want to make a few extra dollars or start a new business, this handy inventor?s guide points the way.
Michael Collins is the CEO and founder of Big Idea Group (BIG), an open-innovation company that bridges the gap between some of the world's largest manufacturers and the people on the streets who often have some of the world's best ideas.
Over the years, Collins has met with literally thousands of these idea people, some of whom call themselves inventors and a great many more who are simply innovative thinkers, creative problem solvers, or average Joes with a light bulb moment.
Through BIG, Collins has worked with many of these everyday experts, helping them get their products shown and sometimes licensed to companies that previously showed no interest in getting help from outside the walls of their own research and development laboratories. But Collins's reputation for spotting worthwhile innovation and his no-games business policies have enabled him to walk through the doors that lone inventors only bump up against.
In his book, The Million-Dollar Idea in Everyone, Collins explains the world of open innovation and why this growing phenomenon creates opportunities for individuals to make money in ways that weren't even possible just a few years ago. But now everybody has the chance to take their personal interests, insights, and life experiences and translate that unique combination of knowledge into cash.
