4.2 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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How do you turn a brilliant idea into a usable and saleable product, what does it cost to protect your design and how do you get the funding to start production?
On Wednesday’s programme Adam Shaw speaks to independent inventors who've developed solutions to personal problems and now sell them worldwide.
If you’ve an experience or question you’d like to share we’d love to hear from you too. Tweet @Moneybox or e-mail [email protected] now
Presenter: Adam Shaw Producer: Diane Richardson Editor: Emma Rippon
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0:00.0 | You are about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about what goes into making one. |
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0:11.2 | I pull a lot of levers to support a diverse range of podcasts on all sorts of subjects, |
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0:22.4 | So one day I'll be helping host develop their ideas, the next fact-checking, a feature, |
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0:43.3 | Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
0:48.1 | We've never been more inventive applications for patents and trademarks |
0:52.8 | saw during lockdown to a record high, but inventing a product is only the beginning. |
0:58.9 | It is just as hard to fund its development and protect its design and brand. |
1:04.1 | So in this episode, we're looking at how to make money out of your inventions and clever ideas by talking to some of the people |
1:12.0 | who've done it. And let's meet two of them, Zoe and Nick. Welcome to the program. Zoe, |
1:17.6 | briefly, if I could ask you first, tell me your idea. So about seven years ago, I was potty training, |
1:24.8 | my son, and I was also giving end of life care to my dad, who was |
1:28.3 | bedbound. |
1:29.4 | And I had an issue whereby I couldn't find a portable toilet solution that I could keep and carry |
1:38.1 | around with me. |
1:39.6 | All that was on the market was huge potty's and things. |
1:43.0 | So I invented my own. I called it the |
1:46.3 | wizard. It's taken seven years to bring to life, but I've now launched it this year during |
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