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Book Synopsis The Novelty 'Sweet Spot' of Invention by : Yuejun He
Download or read book The Novelty 'Sweet Spot' of Invention written by Yuejun He and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invention arises from novel combinations of prior technologies. However, prior studies of creativity have suggested that overly novel combinations may be harmful to invention. Apart from the factors of expertise, market, etc., there may be such a thing as 'too much' or 'too little' novelty that will determine an invention's future value, but little empirical evidence exists in the literature. Using technical patents as the proxy of inventions, our analysis of 3.9 million patents identifies a clear 'sweet spot' in which the mix of novel combinations of prior technologies favors an invention's eventual success. Specifically, we found that the invention categories with the highest mean values and hit rates have moderate novelty in the center of their combination space and high novelty in the extreme of their combination space. Too much or too little central novelty suppresses the positive contribution of extreme novelty in the invention. Furthermore, the combination of scientific and broader knowledge beyond patentable technologies creates additional value for invention and enlarges the advantage of the novelty sweet spot. These findings may further enable data-driven methods both for assessing invention novelty and for profiling inventors, and may inspire a new strand of data-driven design research and practice.
Book Synopsis Totally Absurd Inventions by : Ted Vancleave
Download or read book Totally Absurd Inventions written by Ted Vancleave and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally Absurd Inventions offers the best of the goofy from the millions of patents granted during the past 70 years. Each of the nearly 100 off-the-wall inventions unearthed for this collection features the detailed patent application illustration and a lively description of the bizarre proposed creation. Need to know when your baby's diaper is dirty? You'll want to see the plans behind the Diaper Alarm. Little boys wanting to avoid playground kisses may find just what they need in the Kissing Shield. Want to add a unique Wisconsin twist to your cigarette? The Cheese-Filtered Cigarette might do the trick. Super Trash Man, the Cranium Cooler, the All-Terrain Stroller, and the Pet Toilet are just a few more of the zany but fascinating inventions highlighted in this compendium of creativity.
Book Synopsis Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Inclusivity by : Cristiana Sappa
Download or read book Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Rights and Inclusivity written by Cristiana Sappa and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Research Handbook discusses how exclusive intellectual property rights can affect inclusivity within individual, community and business contexts. It employs urban and rural frameworks to provide a multidimensional view of contemporary inclusivity and its relationship with intellectual property.
Book Synopsis The Inventor in You by : Charles Kannankeril
Download or read book The Inventor in You written by Charles Kannankeril and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Kannankeril, an inventor with seventy patents, draws on his years of experience in creating innovative and useful products to help you bring your own ideas to life. Whenever someone says, I wish there were a better way to do this, then you have an opportunity for an invention. All you need to do is identify a solution, make it a reality, and then promote your method. The more you cultivate these abilities, the better youll become at inventing. With this guide to inventing, youll learn how to: identify areas where an invention could solve a problem; develop the mindset, motivation, and determination to develop inventions; navigate cost factors in the invention process; and improve upon inventions that already exist. Kannankeril also emphasizes how important it is to believe you have what it takes to solve problems. Many inventors make great contributions simply by modifying objects that they handle every day to their liking. Filled with stories from the authors own experiences as an inventor, this practical and entertaining guide to inventing explores how an inventors mind works and how to find The Inventor in You.
Book Synopsis A Better Mousetrap: the business of invention by : Graham Barker
Download or read book A Better Mousetrap: the business of invention written by Graham Barker and published by Graham Barker. This book was released on 2007 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Great Inventions and Where They Came From by : Jackie Glassman
Download or read book Great Inventions and Where They Came From written by Jackie Glassman and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories of invention by : Edward Everett Hale
Download or read book Stories of invention written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Triumphs of Invention and Discovery, &c., &c by : James Hamilton Fyfe
Download or read book The Triumphs of Invention and Discovery, &c., &c written by James Hamilton Fyfe and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Albert Jack Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781522880080 Total Pages :198 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Awesome Inventions written by Albert Jack and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curiosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples. Somebody once thought, 'I know, we can move that heavy rock, or dead buffalo, by rolling it along on tree trunks because it is easier than dragging it over the ground.' This, of course, led to the wheel. It must have been around that time that some other clever soul worked out that if he held some meat over that hot fiery thing then it tasted better. It seems basic but it was innovation. Somebody somewhere decided to take the risk of burning their food down into ashes, as they knew the burning logs did, just to see if it tasted any better. But I bet there was someone else laughing at him and saying 'don't do that, it's a terrible idea, ' (or whatever is was they would have said back then.) And that's innovation too. That's discovery and invention. We have been doing it ever since in one form or another and we have come a long way as a species thanks to people who take risks and ignore the advice of wiser ones. And that, in a nutshell, is what this book is all about. You see, that for all of our innovations and invention over the last six thousand years it is incredible to understand that the one thing that has not developed at all is the human brain. Believe it or not the pre-historic human brain was perfectly capable of understanding how to use Windows 8.1 and could easily have landed a rocket on the moon if only the information it was given was better evolved at the time. The brain itself was already fine and all it needed was programming. That, of course, is what has happened to it over the many years since. Man has programmed its brain to learn new and better ways of doing things. And curiosity has led it to evolve from pointing and shouting, fire and tree trunks into where we are now. It is curiosity that has led to invention and migration. 'I wonder what is over that hill over there? There maybe be water, possibly better vegetation. Maybe there are more of those rabbit things we like to eat? Let's go and have a look.' This would have taken them from caves and into man-made huts and so on and so on. And all the time, at every step of the way, somebody would also have been saying to them. 'No, no. That's a terrible idea. It will never work.' Or a mother shouted, 'don't climb onto the back of that thing Jonny, it's not safe. You will hurt yourself, ' which was followed by Wham, and 'I told you so.' But, as we all know, 'Jonny must have got right back on that horse.' More recently, in 1916 somebody said of the radio, 'the wireless music box is of no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?' Well, that would have been a fair question at then but imagine a world without the radio. And the same was said of the television when it was dismissed as a novelty. 'American families will not sit around staring at a plywood box for hours at a time. How wrong can you be? 'If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying, 'It can't be done.' - Peter Ustinov Contents 1. Crude Oil 2. Clinton's Ditch - It's a Little Short of Madness 'Thomas Jefferson.' 3. Unzipped - The True Story of the Zipper 4. The Bra 5. The Safety Razor 6. Kitty Litter 7. The Ballpoint Pen 8. The Railway Networks 9. The Motor Car 10. Velcro 11. Ecommerce 12. Post-It Notes 13. Rubber 14. Black and Decker Workmate 15. Barcodes 16. The Tin Can 17. Underground Trains 18. The Radio 19. The Telescope 20. Air Conditioning 21. The Robotic Arm 22. The X-Ray 23. The Telephone 24. Computers 25. The Jet Engine 26. Satellite Communications 27. Microwave Ovens 28. Fireman's Safety Hood 29. The Parachute 30. Ancient Inventions still in Everyday Use
Book Synopsis Learn from the Past, Create the Future by : Maria de Icaza
Download or read book Learn from the Past, Create the Future written by Maria de Icaza and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inventions and Patents" is the first of WIPO's Learn from the past, create the future series of publications aimed at young students. This series was launched in recognition of the importance of children and young adults as the creators of our future.
Book Synopsis Design Computing and Cognition '16 by : John. S Gero
Download or read book Design Computing and Cognition '16 written by John. S Gero and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the peer-reviewed and revised versions of papers from the Seventh International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'16), held at Northwestern University, Evanston (Chicago), USA, from 27–29 June 2016. The material presented here reflects cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories. The papers are grouped under the following nine headings, describing advances in theory and applications alike and demonstrating the depth and breadth of design computing and design cognition: Design Creativity; Design Cognition - Design Approaches; Design Support; Design Grammars; Design Cognition - Design Behaviors; Design Processes; Design Synthesis; Design Activity and Design Knowledge. The book will be of particular interest to researchers, developers and users of advanced computation in design across all disciplines, and to all readers who need to gain a better understanding of designing.
Download or read book Unventional written by Tom Giesler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overflowing with manic illustrations of irresponsible environmentalism, this irreverent comic satire is a twisted exploration of inventions, the patent system, and one inventor's ill-conceived quest to save the planet. The world needs your help. The environment is in crisis and technology is mankind's only hope. But which inventions can save the planet? Where will they come from? And who will take them from conception to reality? The answers to these important questions can be found in this one-of-a-kind volume from the world's greatest inventor. Thomas von Giesler has decided to bypass altogether the frustrating impediment known as the Patent Office. His magnum opus, Unventional, features 40 meticulously drawn and carefully explained inventions that are included here for free. Yes! Free! (Well, apart from the paltry cost of the book.) As the world's population rises, our oceans empty of life, and our lands thirst for water or are battered by extreme weather events, we look to intellectual property to solve the pressing environmental challenges we face. Unventional includes such technological marvels such as the Shower Viper, the Catnap Inertia Trap, and the Commuter Sail. Who wouldn't want to arrive at the office by drafting behind a tractor trailer? The large-scale use of inventions like these holds the key to our species' survival. This is a time for action-but the author cannot do this alone. A born humanitarian, von Giesler is giving you his priceless ideas. All you need to do is implement them. As the grandson and son of proud inventors, Mr. von Giesler was destined from an early age to save the planet from an awful fate. His illustrious mother invented the Mustache Manager, credited for saving both facial hair and marriages for decades, and the Baby Wrap, precursor to today's swaddling craze. It is no wonder, then, that this book comes when it does-when the world needs it most. However, a plague of patent trolls and the rush for gold in Silicon Valley has clogged the Patent Office, forcing intellectual property geniuses-whose standard-bearer is surely Thomas von Giesler-to wait too long for recognition due to the overwhelming volume of spurious patent applications. Worse-many potentially planet-saving patent applications, including nearly all of von Giesler's, are being rejected due to frivolous concerns over cost, practicality, safety, morality, or common sense. This is why these incredible inventions are being provided to you at no cost (except, ahem, for the cost of the book). The planet needs this book and your willing participation. Pick your favorite invention and start saving the world, today!
Book Synopsis Totally Absurd Inventions by : Ted VanCleave
Download or read book Totally Absurd Inventions written by Ted VanCleave and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Totally Absurd Inventions offers the best of the goofy from the millions of patents granted during the past 70 years. Each of the nearly 100 off-the-wall inventions unearthed for this collection features the detailed patent application illustration and a lively description of the bizarre proposed creation. Need to know when your baby's diaper is dirty? You'll want to see the plans behind the Diaper Alarm. Little boys wanting to avoid playground kisses may find just what they need in the Kissing Shield. Want to add a unique Wisconsin twist to your cigarette? The Cheese-Filtered Cigarette might do the trick. Super Trash Man, the Cranium Cooler, the All-Terrain Stroller, and the Pet Toilet are just a few more of the zany but fascinating inventions highlighted in this compendium of creativity.
Book Synopsis Totally Absurd Inventions by : T. VanCleave
Download or read book Totally Absurd Inventions written by T. VanCleave and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stand Alone, Inventor! by : Robert G. Merrick
Download or read book Stand Alone, Inventor! written by Robert G. Merrick and published by Lee Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of four successful inventions, each posting sales in the millions, these step-by-step lessons and real-life experiences will help aspiring inventors move ahead and succeed with a new product idea. Beginning with the basics of what to invent, how to test it cheaply to see if it will sell, and how to protect and distribute it, "Stand Alone, Inventor!" also offers guidelines on manufacturing and merchandising products from the ground up. Advice on gaining store acceptance, writing a press release and sales material, and getting services for less than what the big guys pay make this book a valuable reference for anyone who wants to turn a simple idea into a million-dollar seller.
Book Synopsis Concept Generation for Design Creativity by : Toshiharu Taura
Download or read book Concept Generation for Design Creativity written by Toshiharu Taura and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept generation process seems like an intuitional thought: difficult to capture and perform, although everyone is capable of it. It is not an analytical process but a synthetic process which has yet to be clarified. Furthermore, new research methods for investigating the concept generation process—a very difficult task since the concept generation process is driven by inner feelings deeply etched in the mind—are necessary to establish its theory and methodology. Concept Generation for Design Creativity – A Systematized Theory and Methodology presents the concept generation process both theoretically and methodologically. Theoretically, the concept generation process is discussed by comparing metaphor, abduction, and General Design Theory from the notions of similarities and dissimilarities. Analogy, blending, and integration by thematic relation have been explained methodologically. So far, these theories and methods have been discussed independently, and the relations among them have not been clarified. Two newly developed research methods to investigate the concept generation process are clearly explained: the explanation-based protocol analysis and constructive simulation. By reading Concept Generation for Design Creativity – A Systematized Theory and Methodology, students, researchers and lecturers in design disciplines (including engineering design, industrial design, software design, CHI, design education, and cognitive science ) can obtain a clear picture of the advanced research findings and the outline of the theories and methods for concept generation. Furthermore, readers are expected to achieve the competence to generate new concepts.
Download or read book Hedy's Folly written by Richard Rhodes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a remarkable story of science history: how a ravishing film star and an avant-garde composer invented spread-spectrum radio, the technology that made wireless phones, GPS systems, and many other devices possible. Beginning at a Hollywood dinner table, Hedy's Folly tells a wild story of innovation that culminates in U.S. patent number 2,292,387 for a "secret communication system." Along the way Rhodes weaves together Hollywood’s golden era, the history of Vienna, 1920s Paris, weapons design, music, a tutorial on patent law and a brief treatise on transmission technology. Narrated with the rigor and charisma we've come to expect of Rhodes, it is a remarkable narrative adventure about spread-spectrum radio's genesis and unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world.
