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November 28, 2022 22 mins

Stephen Key is the world’s leading expert on how to license a product idea and a 2018-2019 AAAS-LemelsonInvention Ambassador. As an independent inventor, he achieved repeat success commercializing products ranging from simple novelty gifts to complex packaging innovations. He is currently the patent strategist for Fishbone Packaging, the environmentally-friendly solution for single-use plastic rings. 

In 1999, he cofounded inventRight, the coaching program that has taught inventors from more than 65 countries how to harness the power of open innovation and the licensing business model to bring their ideas to market. 

He is the author of One Simple Idea, Sell Your Ideas With or Without a Patent, Become a Professional Inventor, and Licensing Ideas using LinkedIn

To help creative people become profitable inventors, he has written more than 1,000 articles for Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur magazines and published over 900 videos on his popular YouTube channel inventRightTV.

Links

Personal website — https://stephenkey.com

inventRight website — https://www.inventright.com

YouTube channel — https://www.youtube.com/inventRight/

One Simple Idea — https://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Revised-Expanded/dp/1522690379

LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenmkey/

Twitter — https://twitter.com/stephenkeymedia

Forbes —https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenkey/

Inc. — https://www.inc.com/author/stephen-key

Entrepreneur — https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/stephen-key

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