Technological Inventions via Art

In the Market for Technological Inventions

How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur’s decision to pursue either disclosure—where investors inspect the invention—or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license)—where an invention’s value is inferred from the entrepreneur’s willingness to make her pay contingent on the invention’s suc...

Entrepreneurial Optimism in the Market for Technological Inventions

Technological Determinism in Media Art

Technological determinism is the belief that science and technology are autonomous and the main force for change in society. It is neither new nor particularly original but has become an immensely powerful and largely orthodox view of the nature of social change in highly industrialised societies. In this paper I analyse the presence of technological determinism in general discourses about the ...

A Framework for Analyzing the Underlying Inventions that Drive Technical Improvements in a Specific Technological Field

This paper presents a repeatable method to identify, describe and analyze the important inventions in an industry. The method involves qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis of patents to understand the inventions that have contributed to the growth of an industry. We present a process for mapping the inventions by their importance in an attempt to understand the set of inventions tha...

Chemical Engineering via Art

The major aim of this article is to demonstrate via art different aspects of Chemical Engineering. This is a new approach developed by the author to describe scientific and engineering subjects via art, thus making them more understandable and easy to percept. The author has reached this conclusion after teaching several times a course on “The Interaction Between Art and Science” as well as wri...