A BURY inventor has the blueprint to help would-be colleagues turn innovation into application.
Lorna Roscow is now embarking down the Inventors Highway to offer key advice to those with bright business ideas.
And the 37-year-old Ramsbottom woman is well qualified to pass on her own experience and expertise in the field of inventing.
"I've been involved with inventing for ten years and have won many awards," said the mother-of-two.
These include a coveted bronze medal for International Invention of the Year, and becoming a finalist in the innovation category of the prestigious British Hairdressing Business Awards.
The latter accolade was in tribute to her Tryle Style invention, launched at a Whitefield-based salon, which allows customers the opportunity to see how they would suit a variety of hair styles.
Lorna has just completed the design of a prototype Kerby children's game, and has taken out a patent on it. It is one of two concepts for the lucrative toy industry.
She said: "Being an inventor has not always been easy. With a very low budget and few skills, I had to study long and hard to enable me to progress without having to pay huge sums of money for the expert knowledge of others.
"Ten years on, I own the rights to numerous patents, registered designs, copyrights and a registered trade mark."
Lorna, of Fir Street, acknowledged: "It's been a challenge. But I was extremely determined and focused because I believed in what I was doing.
"I have enjoyed the whole experience. It has opened doors I didn't even know were there."
On April 11, Lorna will be launching her Inventors Highway course for would-be Bury boffins at the town's Europa House.
"What I want to do now is to encourage more people to turn their ideas into reality and benefit from the available advice and help on offer.
"In my personal experience, I found so many different sources of information which only helped in the short-term. I needed one body to pull the whole process together which is why I created the Inventors Highway."
She continued: "The Inventors Highway is a brand new course available to businesses and individuals with a good idea, looking for advice.
"This compact one-day course, which has the approval of the Patent Office, will take people through all the stages of inventing from their first thoughts."
The course will take would-be inventors through to:
Design and prototyping
How to protect an idea
Product, patent and market research
and through to:
Pricing
Presentation
Exhibition, and much more.
Those who sign up will also receive details of recommended contacts and further information on other courses as well as the chance to meet other inventors.
Inventors Highway is also looking for businesses for its database which it can recommend to inventors.
And Lorna also wants details of companies wishing to be informed when an inventor has a product relevant to their industry.
To book for April's course, ring 01706 82 9876.
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