Many years ago, a young man was influenced by pioneers of innovation like Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison. He dreamed of launching a product that would solve the problem of toothbrush germs that could spread to make everyone in his family sick. After exhausting significant time and capital trying to bring his idea to life, a major corporation beat him to the market with the same idea.

One reason he was beaten to market by this company was not because they were bigger, but because they were faster. Unlike him, this company had the ability to produce a fully developed product in a rather rapid fashion. In an industry where "the early bird gets the worm", speed is a tremendous advantage.

The other reason why he lost out was because an independent inventor like him did not have one full service resource to turn to for help. While working on his idea, he consulted with a number of independent patent attorneys, marketing firms, and industrial and prototype design companies. Each one helped to develop various segments of his idea; however, each was limited to their own area of expertise, and did not work as a unified team working toward a common goal.

It became obvious to this young man that an inexperienced inventor was at a serious disadvantage in competing with corporate America. It was clear that inventors like him needed a company to assist them in all of the areas necessary to transform an idea into a presentable product, one source that could do it all and do it fast. He asked himself "How can I make inventing a product more systematic and cost effective?" He knew that there had to be a better way. He realized that corporations did it each day with their own research and development departments, so why couldn't he?

In 1989, that young man created Davison, a place where the process of inventing lives in the spirit of a team of passionate, hardworking people, who work together to develop groundbreaking new products under one roof.