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IEEE Spectrum, 2008
Engineers are "hired to invent," which affects how they are compensated when their ideas are patented by the companies for which they work.
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Engineers are "hired to invent," which affects how they are compensated when their ideas are patented by the companies for which they work.
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TRIZ: an inventive approach to invention
Engineering Management Journal, 2002Conceived over 50 years ago in Russia, the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) has only recently reached the West. Faced with increasing demands and rising expectations from the market, a few firms are now using this approach to create new and improved products in a way that does not rely entirely on inspiration and chance discoveries.
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2019
Alfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for him ...
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Alfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for him ...
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Inventing the Donor / Inventing the Self
2018This chapter describes how children begin to understand the meaning of donor conception to make sense of the hollow concept of a donor. It explores how children of different ages imagine the sperm donor. Sex education in schools and conversations with other children become factors in their understanding.
Rosanna Hertz, Margaret K. Nelson
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On the invention of the ophthalmoscope [PDF]
Documenta Ophthalmologica, 1994 The author offers an English translation of three passages of Purkinje's Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus (1823). He shows that Purkinje made three inventions: (1) by using a transparent mirror, (2) by anticipating Maxwellian illumination, and (3) by providing the first recorded ophthalmic examination of animal and human eyes.
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Modern Theology, 2011
AbstractThis article examines the Western construction of “religion” as passionate and non‐rational. First, it summarizes the history of the category “religion” and the creation of the myth of religious violence. It then examines the construction of one of the stock characters of modernity, the religious fanatic, and shows how fanaticism migrated from ...
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AbstractThis article examines the Western construction of “religion” as passionate and non‐rational. First, it summarizes the history of the category “religion” and the creation of the myth of religious violence. It then examines the construction of one of the stock characters of modernity, the religious fanatic, and shows how fanaticism migrated from ...
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Invention, Inventiveness, and Open Innovation
2013This chapter will provide a list of definitions in order to better illustrate the terminology used in the chapter title.
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Scientific American, 1906
There are many kinds of invention. The poet, the artist, the playwright, the novelist all exercise or may exercise invention in the production of their works. The merchant may exercise invention in the devising of a new method of selling goods. The department store was an invention of this class.
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There are many kinds of invention. The poet, the artist, the playwright, the novelist all exercise or may exercise invention in the production of their works. The merchant may exercise invention in the devising of a new method of selling goods. The department store was an invention of this class.
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2008
Written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth, this paper construes Nina Coltart's statement that "if Freud did not exist it would be necessary to invent him," with its implicit comparison of Freud to God, to refer to (a) the things that Freud taught that are incontrovertibly true; (b) the unavoidable subjectivity in all judgments of ...
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Written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Freud's birth, this paper construes Nina Coltart's statement that "if Freud did not exist it would be necessary to invent him," with its implicit comparison of Freud to God, to refer to (a) the things that Freud taught that are incontrovertibly true; (b) the unavoidable subjectivity in all judgments of ...
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Playful invention, inventive play
International Journal of Play, 2016ABSTRACTThe Smithsonian Lemelson Center's Invention at Play exhibition project brought a fresh perspective to the study of invention by exploring the role of play in the creative processes of historic and contemporary inventors. This special journal issue provides a welcome opportunity to share the Lemelson Center's primary research, featuring ...
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