New Product Development (NPD)

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Comment by Ian Estinozo on March 16, 2009 at 5:59pm

Some IP are best kept as trade secret instead of having it as a protected document like a patent -- especially if it will be critical to the company's future success and it is not that difficult to duplicate.

So aside from confidentiality agreement (there's a lot of kinds), it also make sense to breakdown a big project and work with multiple partner that will provide you a part of the solution. However, you do need to have a good integration team to put them all together and make it work.

Comment by Ted Cleggett on September 5, 2008 at 8:49am

Comment by Ted Cleggett just now
Delete Comment Although I would agree that having the development partner sign a confidentiality agreement would be the first step, further action must be taken. 1) As part of the agreement; it must be stated clearly what the goal of the project is and that all data resulting from the R&D is owned by you, the customer. 2) Evaluate the company's policies on Data Management and Security. (How will your data be stored?, Who will have access to it?, How is information deleted or destroyed? etc...) 3) Insure that the company have there employee's sign confidentiality agreements within the company as part of there common practice.

Comment by Mkibler on August 28, 2008 at 10:28am

Confidentiality agreements!Confidentiality agreements!Confidentiality agreements!

Comment by andrew on August 25, 2008 at 9:18am

FOR NEW CONCEPTS, HOW DOES ONE GO ABOUT FINDING THE RIGHT PARTNER TO ASSIST IN THE R&D AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS WHEN THE GOAL IS TO OWN THE METHOD AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYS IE HOW DO YOU BUY THE BRAINS