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Where will you find your next product?  How can you create a market for your new technology?  Will anyone care about the product you'd like to commercialize?  What's the best way to introduce your product to the market?  Who can tell you how the product will be received?

Anne can help you answer the questions above by offering the following services for the software and cleantech sectors:
  • New product management and launches
  • Trend and market research, particularly for the cleantech sector
  • BrainBuzz(TM) crowdsourcing groups for user feedback and technical recruiting
  • Collaboration mapping to help you find partners in technology development, commercialization, and marketing
  • Technology scouting
Anne combines deep domain knowledge about the processes of innovation with strategic planning, business development, and project management experience.  She also delivers half-day and full-day training workshops on the topics above.
  • Founding President of Young Inventors International
  • Pioneered the BrainBuzz, a novel model for innovation through live collaboration
  • Secured initial large-scale projects for the solar thermal building materials company she co-founded to launch the product in the market
  • Certified by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Intellectual Property Management
  • Conducted innovation research at the University of Toronto (with the Innovation Systems Research Network) and at Carnegie Mellon University (with support from the Kauffman Foundation)
  • Guest lecturer on commercialization and intellectual capital management at MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin at Madison, University of Waterloo, and 30 others
  • Columnist for Xconomy on topics of innovation and entrepreneurship
  • One of GLAMOUR Magazine’s Top Ten College Women – “Most likely to change the world” for her work with innovators
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Anne is an Xconomist and author of the following articles:
Take a look at this recent World Intellectual Property Organization's Magazine article about YII and its members.