Selling ideas to a big company

Re:Selling ideas to a big company by swombat on Monday December 15, 2008 @08:48AM (#398310)

So what other industries do you know of that buy ideas?

I can't think of any other than the book industry (and perhaps other art-focused fields), really...

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by ph0rque on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:17AM (#398340)

> So what other industries do you know of that buy ideas? I can't think of any other than the book industry...

It seems that the time is ripe for a digital, networked app equivalent to be replacing books as a medium for ideas... something like Amazon's kindle library, but more revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary).

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by swombat on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:27AM (#398347)

What, you mean like the internet?

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by ph0rque on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:32AM (#398351)

no, something more like wikipedia + lulu + ?

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by icey on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:21AM (#398344)

Lots of industries buy ideas... They just prefer to do it in the "protected" form of purchasing / licensing patents.

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by Alex3917 on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:43AM (#398361)

"So what other industries do you know of that buy ideas?"

It depends on how you define an idea.

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by tyohn on Monday December 15, 2008 @08:53AM (#398315)

Toy and game makers.

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Re:Selling ideas to a big company by ram1024 on Monday December 15, 2008 @09:07AM (#398334)

very few buy ideas anymore, they prefer to have the people create a company proving that the idea is viable/valuable then they buy it out

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