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A history of collaboration in US invention: changing patterns of co-invention, complexity and geography

, 2020
Research suggests that increasing collaboration in knowledge production is explained by rising complexity of knowledge. Yet, there is little long-run, systematic, empirical evidence on the relationship between complexity and collaboration. A new database
F. van der Wouden
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The Invention of Invention

Cultural Critique, 1993
studies and the ways in which it settles and unsettles the epistemes of what we have come to understand as "Western thought." Although the "invention tradition" only came to be recognized as such in the 1980s, it has its roots in the many articulations of antifoundational thought that may be productively traced back to a Nietzschean epistemology ...
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Inventing the Donor / Inventing the Self

2018
This 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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Hired to Invent [invention]

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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TRIZ: an inventive approach to invention

Engineering Management Journal, 2002
Conceived 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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On the invention of the ophthalmoscope [PDF]

open access: possibleDocumenta 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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The Invention of Invention

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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THE INVENTION OF FANATICISM

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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The Art of Inventing

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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