TEC-Search

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TEC-Search is based upon two observations about technology transfer:

1. 50% of the new technologies historically come from the invisible arenas of inventors, small labs and garages.

2. It takes 7-15 years for a new technology/idea to become a commercial success.

In 2013, Bill Wilkie re-founded TSI, a technology search business from the early 1980’s. TEC-Search is partnering with SERIAL INVENTORS, LEAD USERS & DESIGNERS. We will work on their behalf and match them with existing companies or start-ups to manufacture and distribute re-designed industrial commercial products for national markets. Eventually, it may include selected consumer products as well; however, SCALE is a major problem in consumer markets.

Bill Wilkie’s background includes:

Reseach on the Land-Grant Universities 1969-73Formal analysis of America’s foremost contributor to technology development and transfer in production farm-ing and agri-business at Michigan State University.

W. K. Kellogg Foundaiton 1973-75Program Of fi cer responsible for programs in lifelong learning, leadership and economic development. Funded an early Entrepreneurship Institute in Portland, Maine.

Multifastener Corporation 1976-1981A monopoly in system fastening with value added prod- ucts for the automotive industry. Implemented Dr. Frank Bacon’s Planned Innovation process and Dr. Eric von Hippel’s technology transfer process from MIT.

Technology Search, Inc. 1980-82 Search for invisble technologies Forture 500

corporations.Ownwer of Executive Search Boutique 1987-98

Identifi cation of leaders as presidents of a division for holding companies in midwest region of U.S.A.

“...of LEAD USERS and

SERIAL INVENTORS.”

“Bringing invisible technology into focus for owners...”

How does TEC-Search work? TEC-Search, LLC.We usually invest our resources to build four networks:

• Serial inventors• Designers• Leading Edge Users• Owners/Inventors of privately held companies

TEC-Search idenfi es low and medium technologies and inventions in the invisible arenas that are often ignored by large corporations because the market is too small.

TEC-Search identifi es the technology and matches it to the core competencies of a network of privately-held companies. We normally bring the client a product/technology along with patents, its fees are based upon the size of the potential market. They are paid entirely by the companies in our network that license or purchase a patent..

William R. Wilkiewww.TEC-Search.com 471 West Long Lake Drive

Harrison, Michigan 48625 USA501.226.5575 wwilkie@TEC-search.com

William Wilkie approaches technology acquisition & transfer from a background that combines experience in American universities, the foundation world and private industry.

All searches & databases will focus initially on inventors with...

• re-designed products for existing commercial & industrial markets as well as selected consumer markets

• by focusing on technology transfer and “lead-user” networking rather than creating technology (R&D)

• leading to value added products for national niche markets.

Who makes TEC-Search work?

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What’s “invisible technology?”

471 West Long Lake Drive, Harrison, Michigan 48625 USA 501.226.5575 www.TEC-Search.com

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Invisible Technology

Technology Watch NetworksInvisible technology is people, ideas and products that could help you--if only you knew where to look for them. Companies usually spend 95%+ of their develop-ment resources on creating or fi nding visible technology. Historically, more than half of all new products come from technology developed in the invisible arenas; however companies choose to ignore these facts. This void repre-sents an opportunity to invest in invisible technology.

In a world of microchips, nanotechnology, laser optics, processed foods and designer genes, TEC-Search’s specializes in just that -- knowing where to look. For today’s 21st century economy, advanced knowledge is commercially more important that every before. It has led to “knowledge management” (KM) as an emerging fi eld in the last three decades But effective KM is still dependent upon a lead user’s experience and intuition to see the most profi table opportunities. Yet the very explosion of new technology and materials as well as the ever changing market-place or market-space make it almost impossible to keep abreast of the latest developments, even the ones that make today’s headlines--or tomorrow’s headlines.

What can TEC-Search do for inventors?In regular contact with a wide spectrum of indviduals, organizations and companies, TEC-Search conducts tech-nology scanning, monitoring of technical and scientifi c developments, personal contact with applied scientists, serial inventors, entrepreneurs, etc. All these professionals are “LEAD USERS” who apply technology that changes or even re-invents existing product-markets. TEC-Search adds both knowledge and business acumen to provide our clients with niche technologies that are the basis for the re-design of those existing product-markets.

TEC-Search works with and through a limited refer-ral network made up of knowledgable serial entrepreneurs, serial inventors and applied researchers working in industry, government, colleges and universities...even their garage.

A continually expanding network provides access to:

Critical search areas of immediate interest in the early 21st century include:

• Industrial Processing Innovations• Materials• Medical Instruments & Equipment• Packaging Systems• Sensing Systems• Fastening Systems

In addition, TEC-Search has built its referral network around a variety of technologies for the global ecomony. Some examples of areas where TEC-Search is using its referral network to identify applications of low and medium as well as selected high technology niches in-clude the following areas. • Micro-Electronics• Sensing Systems• Nanotechnology• Materials• Medical Tooling• Electrochromics• Electricity Distribution• Industrial Products...

among others.

Examples of Watch Fields

People--researhcers, inventors, patent-holders, designers, etc.

Patented Products--from concepts to completed lines, re-designs of products for niche commercial & consumer sectors.

Trade Secrets--manufacturing processes and new material represent some of the most productive protections for lengthening product life cycles or creating a monopoly.

TEC-Search’s principle concerns are identifying and locat-ing re-designed products/systems and improved manufac-turing techniques and processes. Through our Technology Watch Networks, we stay in touch with skilled, creative and indepenent technologists, inventors and innovators who are always creating and developing industrial and commercial products as “lead users.” These hard-to-fi nd ingenious men and women, who are not under contract to major corpo-rations or a government agency or academic institution, often have practical low and medium as well as niche high technology to meet existing markets more effectively.