Solving a Market Need Protecting Your Invention Starting a Company Licensing Your Technology Other Resources			If you want to shepherd your innovation to the marketplace and see it successfully commercialized, you have a challenging road ahead of you. To assist your endeavors, the Deshpande Center has gathered valuable advice from those who have traveled this road before. (We update these resources, so be sure to come back again.)

		Developing ideas that solve a market need To increase the likelihood that your innovation will make an impact, consider the market. Protecting your invention Take a few steps now to make your idea more licensable in the future. Starting a company These resources will help you organize, find collaborators, and raise money. Licensing your technology Those researchers who don't want to become entrepreneurs can have someone else take their product to market, without missing out on financial rewards. Other innovation and entrepreneurship resources Explore these links to learn about the impact of innovation on the economy, legal and administrative resources at MIT, and pundits' views on which emerging technologies are going to take off. Want to have your link displayed here? Send an email to desphandecenter@mit.edu. Include a title for the link and its URL, the section it belongs in, and a 15-20 word description of the information it offers.
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