Invention and innovation
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Ernie Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, Ernie
Publisher: Open University
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Milton Keynes
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780749269173
Subjects: Technological innovations; Inventions; Industrial design; Product design
Other titles: Innovation : designing for a sustainable future.
Notes: Block 1 of T307 Innovation : designing for a sustainable future.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Aims and learning outcomes; title: 1 Investigating the innovation process; title: 1.1 Living with innovation; title: 1.2 Exploring innovation; title: 1.3 Inventing the telephone and living with the innovation; title: 1.4 Key course concepts; title: 1.5 Dead certs and dead ends; title: 1.6 Key points of Section 1; title: 2 Invention; title: 2.1 How invention starts; title: 2.2 How the process of invention works; title: 2.3 Technology push and market pull; title: 2.4 Preparing for innovation; title: 2.5 Key points of Section 2; title: 3 Innovation; title: 3.1 Overcoming obstacles to innovation; title: 3.2 Diffusion of innovations; title: 3.3 Sustaining and disruptive innovation; title: 3.4 Phases and waves of innovation; title: 3.5 Key points of Section 3; title: 4 Decline of the individual inventor?; title: 4.1 Lone inventors; title: 4.2 Inventors and organisations; title: 4.3 Inventors within organisations; title: 4.4 Is there a future for the lone inventor?; title: 4.5 Key points of Section 4; title: 5 Impact of new technologies; title: 5.1 Impact of information and communication technologies; title: 5.2 Appliance of science; title: nanotechnology; title: 5.3 Technology optimism and pessimism; title: 5.4 Environmental impact and sustainability; title: 5.5 Key points of Section 5; title: 6 Forecasting the future of innovation; title: 6.1 Survival of the fittest?; title: 6.2 Success factors for innovation; title: 6.3 Forecasting technological development; title: 6.4 Key points of Section 6; title: Answers to self-assessment questions; title: References; title: Acknowledgents.