Change Is Good
Connecting the ingenuity of innovators with the needs of today's retailers.
In today's economy, only the strong survive. To remain competitive, American businesses have turned to outsourcing as the primary strategy for keeping up with international industry leaders. Looking ahead, labor and production costs will continue to rise. The only thing that will keep major retailers and manufacturers at the forefront of our global economy is innovation.
Edison Nation proves what history has taught us: innovation is not found primarily within the domain of large corporations, scientists and universities; it lives in the hearts and minds of ordinary people who are able to see solutions in places others have overlooked.
A New Model for Innovation
Where traditional consumer products companies work solely within their means, Edison Nation utilizes "crowdsourcing." Relationships with innovators, retailers, manufacturers and non-profit innovation partners help position Edison Nation as the nation's only consumer innovation company working outside company walls.
What Edison Nation Offers
Edison Nation offers retailers and manufacturers access to an unlimited pool of ideas not restricted by corporate structure — where ordinary people with extraordinary product ideas can make a difference.
Edison Nation Speaks The Language Of Innovation
Businesses and retailers and manufacturers can seamlessly collaborate and provide consumers what they demand based on their own needs. Each retailer and manufacturer can work with an Edison Nation Product Category Manager to define their needs. Edison Nation broadcasts these requirements via a Live Product Search on EdisonNation.com and owns the legal options on all product submissions.
A Proven Process
Edison Nation deploys its team of product development experts to identify all submissions that match the specific search criteria and then develops a comprehensive package of options that match the company's needs. That's it. No negotiating with individual inventors. Edison Nation leverages the collective genius of American ingenuity on your company's behalf, and everybody wins.
About Edison Nation
| Traditional Consumer Product Companies |
Edison Nation |
|---|---|
| Hundreds of people on payroll developing products | Thousands of people off payroll developing products |
| Lengthy, expensive development cycles | Short development cycles |
| Invest in blind patent protection | Owns legal options to intellectual property for pending or issued patents |
| Develop products based on perceived need | Develops consumer-inspired products |
"From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day. From his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce" - Thomas A. Edison
Tapping Into Creativity
Edison Nation champions the ingenuity of the individual innovator and the needs of global retailers and manufacturers by enabling them to connect within a collaborative, seamless and hassle-free platform. Edison Nation is credentialed by in-house development capabilities and a proven reputation within the independent inventor community.
Edison Nation boasts the sole ownership of PBS' Emmy award-winning television series, Everyday Edisons® produces the world's only magazine for independent inventors, Inventors Digest and retains relationships with the nation's largest specialty retailers and manufacturers.
Edison Nation is the trusted source for independent innovation. Acting as a virtual magnet for independent inventors' intellectual property, it serves as a conduit to filter and funnel a continuous stream of innovative new products to global retailers and manufacturers — without the traditional hassles.
Edison Nation
is proud to be a development partner with Battelle,
a premier independent research and development organization.