This paper investigates how the details of government actions induce innovation—the overlapping activities of invention, adoption and diffusion, and learning by doing—in benvironmental technology,Q products and processes that either control pollutant emissions or prevent emissions altogether. It applies multiple quantitative and qualitative measures of innovation to a case subject to several bt...

Medicine is developing through biomedical technology and innovations. The goal of any innovation in medicine is to improve patient care. Exponential growth in technology has led to the unprecedented growth of medical technology over the last 50 years. Clinician-scientists need to understand the complexity of the innovation process, from concept to product release, when working to bring new clin...

In this paper we merge individual census data, individual patenting data, and individual IQ data from Finnish Defence Force to look at the probability of becoming an innovator and at the returns to invention. On the former, we find that: (i) it is strongly correlated with parental income; (ii) this correlation is greatly decreased when we control for parental education and child IQ. Turning to ...

contextual invention, innovation, ethnographic, user studies, design research, India, design ethnography, anthropology, culture Contextual invention is defined as the process of using ethnographic data to generate new technology and business ideas in an interdisciplinary team. Ethnographic imagination is described as the essential ingredient within this process. An ethnographic study of media u...

We examine why commercialization of interdisciplinary research, especially from distant scientific domains, is different from commercialization of inventions from specialized or proximate domains. We argue that anticipated coordination costs arising from the need to transfer technology to licensee firms and from the need for an inventor team’s members to work together to further develop a techn...

new, involve an inventive step and are capable of industrial application.” A footnote defines “‘inventive step’ and ‘capable of industrial application’ ... to be synonymous with the terms ‘non-obvious’ and ‘useful’ respectively.” Id. n.5. In many countries that use the “inventive step” test for patentability, the term “inventive step” is specifically defined to refer to something that is “not o...