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Why High School Shark Tank Innovation Programs benefit from standardizing on the IP SAVVYS approach and TSM (The Schwartz Method)
Most IP courses and books on utility patenting focus on “how to patent your invention”, i.e. doing it yourself. The purpose is augmenting that process to improve outcomes and save IP expenditures.
The reason why High School innovation programs are shaping the invention/patenting component around IP SAVVYS is they’ve realized an early intervention into critical thinking about inventing matters more. Â
The sooner budding innovators with the ingredients to succeed at  innovation and product development understand the invention process, the sooner they realize they’ve boosted their chances of future success.
Rather than have these programs focus on "protect this one idea”,  the Schwartz book and course take a simpler point of view.  When the IP SAVVYS approach is used in a high school innovation program, the focus shifts to developing inventor judgment early.
Taking that one step alone changes the emotion (read that anxiety) and the reality (patenting is hard and patenting the right in...
