Numerous investors and manufacturers as well as idea commercialization firms and agents regularly search our database for new ideas, inventions or creative works. A listing on our forum will attract attention from potential buyers from all over the world. 

With each listing, you are also given free access to the listings and websites of potential buyers and investors who are actively seeking to license or purchase inventions and other intellectual properties. To see the examples, click Directory of Buyers. In addition, you will have access to numerous tools and resources. To see the examples, click Tools & Resources.

You can post all types and stages of intellectual property for sale or licensing, including patented and unpatented inventions, trademarks and crafts. Members may also promote creative work including literary, musical and artistic as well as photographic and audiovisual works.

Idea Trade Network (ITN) has pioneered online trading of intellectual property. It has received a number of awards and distinction for its originality, business model and overall level of excellence (see awards graphics). Idea Trade Network (ITN) has been listed on InfoWorld's annual list of innovators that exemplify the best of the IT industry. 

It has also been featured on CNN, CBS MarketWatch as well as Washington Post, Star Tribune and other leading news media from around the world. For details go to In the News.  In addition, Idea Trade Network (ITN) has received top 10 rankings on all leading search engines and directories that reach more than 800 million Internet users around the world. For details go to Top 10 Rankings.

As a result of such worldwide attention, Idea Trade Network (ITN) has become the fastest growing and most popular forum for promoting, buying and selling intellectual property. More than 20,000 companies, inventors, universities and creative individuals from all over the world have already registered with Idea Trade Network (ITN) to promote their innovations to the global market.


Listing Fees & Features

Membership
 FREE   (Sign Up)


Post a Standard Listing (Standard Listing Example)
 $99.95 (one-time processing fee)
 Post one intellectual property
 Post one picture
 Post under one relevant category
Post your Web site address
 Free access to Directory of Buyers
 Free access to Tools & Resources
 Keep your listing till you sell it
 No expiration date
 No renewal fee
 No fee or commission on the sale


Confidentiality & Security
We provide a secure environment where only registered users (with username and password) can browse our listings or submit their own listings of new ideas. All information is stored in secure servers. The listings present only brief summaries without revealing specifics or details.  In order to protect the privacy rights of our members, we do not include any email address, telephone number or mailing address on the listing page.  When a potential buyer is interested in your listing, he or she completes the purchase inquiry form which is then forwarded to your email address.

You may require the individual or organization to sign a non-disclosure agreement before revealing the details. We provide a sample Non-Disclosure Form that offers a framework for the protection of intellectual property. We require all members to comply, as a condition of selling or buying, with the statutory rights of other members. All members must register and agree to our Terms of Use. The Terms of Use clearly states that the Idea Trade Network (ITN) Web site and its contents are protected by copyright.  The member may not republish, disclose or distribute any of the ideas or content, except as allowed by the Terms of Use or the seller.
 

This Century is About Ideas
According to Seth Godin (bestselling author and entrepreneur), “this century is about ideas…we recognize that ideas are driving the economy, ideas are making people rich and most important, ideas are changing the world” --Unleashing the Ideavirus.  Prominent novelist and critic Thomas Mann wrote "it is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available." Until now there has been no affordable forum for small companies, research institutions, national labs and individual inventors and investors to compete for new ideas at the worldwide level.  Idea Trade Network (ITN) broke down traditional geographic, industrial and marketing barriers.
 

Famous Quotations on Innovation

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come" --Victor Hugo

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity" --Oscar Levant

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination" --John Dewey

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next" --John Stuart Mill

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless" --Jean-jacques Rousseau

"Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress" --Theodore Levitt

"Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created" --Albert Einstein.

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess"
--Isaac Newton.

"Success is on the far side of failure" --Thomas Watson Sr.

"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time" --John Stuart Mill

"If you're going through hell, keep going" --Sir Winston Churchill

If people oppose your innovative efforts remember these facts:

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.

“Mr. Bell, after careful consideration of your invention, while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial possibilities."  -- J. P. Morgan's comments on behalf of the officials and engineers of Western Union after a demonstration of the telephone.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981.

"If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein.

“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.” -- Aldous Huxley.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." --G. B. Shaw.

“I watched his countenance closely, to see if he was not deranged... and I was assured by other Senators after we left the room that they had no confidence in it." --Reaction of Senator Smith of Indiana after Samuel Mores demonstrated his telegraph before member of Congress in 1842.

In 1908 Billy Durant, in trying to raise money to create an automobile trust, boasted to J.P. Morgan & Co. "that the time would come when half a million automobiles a year will be running on the roads of this country." This annoyed Morgan partner George W. Perkins who said "If that fellow has any sense, he'll keep those observations to himself." Unable to raise capital in Wall Street, Durant went home and put together something called General Motors.

“A game in which you fly around in space and shoot up other space ships? That is the stupidest idea that I have ever heard.” --Atari manager.

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