Company alert: we made our announcement today with Boeing becoming our latest Enterprise Client disclosing their software Innovations on our B2B Marketplace for Commercialization Innovation.

(author note:  I worked at Boeing from 1987 to 1989 in Facilities & Finance and my father was a 35 year veteran - long since retired now. And we had a bumper sticker on our car growing up that read: “If it’s not Boeing, I’m not going.”)

We are excited most by Boeing’s level of sophistication and maturity around software commercialization and IP licensing.  They have been doing it (well) for years and it shows.  They have been embracing Open Innovation for a long time given their requirement to collaborate so deeply, with some many suppliers, and so many industries to get an airliner built or a new government program launched.  For them to avail some of their compelling technology innovations to others has simply been integrated into their corporate DNA.  Furthermore, the team we work with is amazing - thorough, professional, and frankly fun to be around.  For you potential Buyers - they will work hard to ensure a great deal for your firm; don’t get nervous that you have to work with a Fortune 66 firm.  They will be good stewards of your time and resources.

Even better, once one of my Buyers found out about this announcement, I think his quote was, “well, now the the “Boeing store” is open here is a specific list of things I am looking for”[to license].  He is in the CAD/Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software segment and prior to my outreach did not know that Boeing would commercialized its software innovations to companies like his.

I hope you’ll join me in thanking them for choosing to work with us and we promise to work hard making this relationship a wild success for each other, the Buyers and the industry at large.

Tom