Invention is a collective action - DevConf.CZ 2021
Channel: DevConf
Date: 26/04/2021

Speaker: Gordon Haff

The stereotypical image of an inventor is a lone person working in their garage, bedroom, or laboratory. But even when some specific invention is the product of a single mind, it springs from a long chain of precursors, without which it wouldn't be possible. Furthermore, much invention is essentially social. Even in the absence of explicit sharing and collective innovation as in the case of open source software, there's a diffusion of invention and innovation going back to the 19th-century iron and steel industry--where it's been studied--and almost certainly long before. My talk would go into examples of both building on prior work and collaborative innovation.



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