-acting as a mentor to Anne Swift’s Young Inventors
International group in Toronto, ON which provides professional
support to inventors aged 18-35 years.
-using his experience to help establish the Inventors Coop in Toronto
which is presently being chaired by Bob Huybrechts, the inventor of a
moldable acrylic BITEM www.bitem.ca
-participating in inventor club meetings in Brantford and Toronto,
weather permitting. Meeting details and locations appear on Richard
Parson's www.inventors.ca, an excellent educational
news source for Canadian inventors.
-participated in the Innovation Strategy Summits organized by
Industry Canada in 2002 in London, Hamilton and Toronto.
-assisting Dr. Tom Astebro of the University of Waterloo’s
Department of Management Sciences conduct further research on inventors
decision making processes.
-networking with the United Inventors Association www.uiausa.org
and others.
Bob has a broadly based General Science degree with credits in both
engineering and the sciences. As well, his experience in the social work
field has proven to be very useful when counseling inventors with
respect to the commercial feasibility of their concepts. Over the past
22 years he has acquired extensive experience while preparing reports
for some 11,000 inventors.