Product Description: Business Success Through Innovation is the first book to explain in a straight-forward fashion how you can generate wealth through innovation. You will learn what steps to take from conception of your innovation to bringing it to market, including how to determine if you should pursue a patent and how to increase the likelihood of being granted a profitable patent. The book includes valuable statistics on United States patents, including "top ten" lists by company, technology category, university, state and country. You will gain insight on a wide-range of real-life innovation success stories including Crocs, Liquid Paper and Qualcomm. The book contains 50 actual patent examples from both individual innovators and fortune 500 companies.