Badenoch turns ideas into intellectual property

Badenoch is a company that focuses on creating intellectual property. Or put more simply, creating new technology that pushes the envelope of how we live life today. "We only work on things that don’t have requirements," says Scott Badenoch, CEO & owner of Badenoch. "We focus on the unknown. We work on the future." The Southfield-based company, which also works through the Macomb-OU INCubator, got its start in 2005 and employs a core staff of four people. It also works with a large stable of independent contractors that is assembles for each project it takes on. "We want to go out and get the very best and move on," Badenoch says. One of its current projects is working on increasing the survivability in the military. In the aftermath of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that means finding out a way to protect soldiers in vehicles in combat zones. to Badenoch that means helping redesign the architecture of the military vehicle to make it more protective. "We have worked significantly on that," Badenoch says. Source: Scott Badenoch, CEO & owner of Badenoch Writer: Jon Zemke Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.