Encouraging Innovation by CDOT Workers

摘要

In the course of their work, Colorado DOT employees have been known to create devices that improve the safety, efficiency, and quality of their work. The purpose of this study was to identify recent devices that were created by CDOT employees and to document them. In response to a request for innovations, CDOT employees submitted 34 candidate innovations. An Inventing and Patenting workshop was developed and delivered to these and other CDOT employees. A series of documents were developed for 23 of the 34 devices, namely: (1) Device Costs and Benefits, (2) User Manual, (3) Mechanical Drawing Package, and (4) Preliminary Patentability Assessment. The intent of this effort was to help disseminate, if appropriate, innovative devices throughout CDOT and other DOTs, and to provide input on patentability to the device developers.