• Why Make New Products? Why Not?

    What does it take to do?


    How do we turn a cool idea into something that works?


    How do we turn something that works into a product?

    How do we make a product into a global product?

  • To answer these questions and others, read on to learn of OPEN’s NOVA Initiative to jump start your product development journey.


    Are you a student and think you might graduate with cool ideas for something you want to build and maybe even build a business around it? Or  perhaps you're a few years into your career and want to take the entrepreneurial plunge with your brainchild. Either way, it’s important to  know what you’ll be getting into if you want to build a truly world-class  product, and it will certainly be a lot more than only knowing how to design and build it.


    Step inside OPEN’s NOVA Initiative to learn all about how to develop new  products that can stand and compete on the global stage.

    On the other hand, if you represent an engineering, science, or design faculty at a university or college, join OPEN’s NOVA Initiative to see how your institution can help its graduates leave well-prepared to take on the  challenges of new product development without having to spend valuable years learning on the job.

  • Nova Course

    Aimed squarely at accelerating understanding of what it takes to develop new products for global markets:

    The NOVA Course is targeted at students in engineering, science, arts, and business colleges, and its FREE of charge! Learning the full spectrum of disciplines involved, can take five to eight years if left to natural “immersion” on the job. Now, with nearly eighty years of combined experience in developing and bringing products and technologies to market, M. Salahuddin Khan and Imran Khan, two of OPEN’s founders, will take the lead in delivering learning modules that will significantly shorten the learning curve and position attendees to better leverage opportunities to develop, productize, and globally market their ideas.

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    Nova Contest

    Get the actual experience of the process of developing a new product:

    The NOVA Initiative is not only about getting students to benefit from virtual classroom webinars and reading material, but also to actually experience the process of developing a new product. First hand. 

    For this reason, the NOVA initiative includes Annual NOVA Contests focused on getting participants to form contestant NOVA Teams to design, develop, test, and present a product to compete with the entries of other contestant NOVA Teams. 

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