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  1. Science and art - Feb 1959 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=ogkAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 15, No. 2 - 48 pages - Magazine
    The modern-day inventions have dumped sixty billion pictures on our heads— ..... ideas of Poincare with full appreciation of the innovations of Lebesgue, ...
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    Invention and innovation as problem solving activities: a ...


    www.ivwl.uni-kassel.de/diskussionsbeitraege/workingpaper/papier4703.pdf
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    by F Beckenbach - Cited by 8 - Related articles
    V.4 Integrating invention and innovation in an evolutionary concept of agent. VI. Conclusions ... sense, genuinely new ideas come out of the blue. ... proviso one has to deny, that a discovery of a novelty in an economic context does ... 'an irrational element', or a 'creative intuition'"(Popper 1959, pp 31) ...
  3. [PDF] 

    ITRIZ Introduction Ideation Theory of Inventive Problem Solving


    www.ideationtriz.com/new/materials/itrizintro.pdf
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    talent. Individual experience. Tacit knowledge = Intuition. How. Can I. Invent. Tomas Alva Edison ... (patent fond). New Ideas,. Concepts,. Inventions,. Innovations, .... Pioneering of an essentially new system based on discovery, like laser, radio, .... Ideas. Substance. Space. Time. Trends. Resources of Change ...
  4. [PDF] 

    Schumpeter and the Concept of Social Evolution: Role of Innovation ...


    www.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/service/tenji/amjas/Yagi.pdf
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    by K Yagi - Cited by 1 - Related articles
    attitude against the penetration of evolutionary ideas into economics and .... I Secular trends, cyclical fluctuations, and catastrophic interrelations of growth. ... Scope of innovation as a social factor. invention and discovery, ..... "it [personal intuition of entrepreneur: Yagi] could be expected to yield its ...
  5. Einstein and peace - Mar 1979 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?id=7goAAAAAMBAJ...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Vol. 35, No. 3 - 88 pages - Magazine
    (21 3) 342-4984 f Maps and Photos of / recent geothermal discoveries and projects .... It actually looks as if the novelty of this outlook had worn off even ...
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    Reflections on Mansfield, Technological Complexity, and the ...


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    by LM Branscomb - 2005 - Related articles
    (R&D), imitation, inventioninnovation, military, technology ... ple are unnecessarily impervious to the good ideas ... The dramatic trend toward the consolidation of American business in the first quarter of the .... Invention has become more automatic, less the result of intuition or genius and more a matter of ...

  7. The Role of Intuition in Innovation and Invention


    www.docstoc.com/.../The-Role-of-Intuition-in-Innovation-and-Inve... - Cached
    5 May 2010 – Both the monumental and the lesser discoveries and inventions of the human race were arrived at in this manner. ... But intuitively thinking of an innovative idea alone is not ... insight and seems to grasp a concept or come up with an idea, ..... 'Informed intuitionis insight into consumer trends. ...
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    Turning Concepts into Innovation Policies


    www.ifbae.com.br/congresso6/pdf/15.pdf
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    review of concepts and buzz words linked to innovation, and the types of data and ... Turningconcepts into innovation policies raises many dilemmas. Hence, ideas of ... performances of companies or on untested intuitionsconcepts and buzz .... of inventions anddiscoveries developed in Canadian universities show ...

  9. Creativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity - Cached
    Romans and Greeks invoked the concept of an external creative "daemon" (Greek) or ...creation was at most a kind of discovery or mimicry, and the idea of ... so omnipresent, that its invention within living memory, and by Alfred North ... (iv) illumination or insight (where the creative idea bursts forth from its ...
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    М. Н. Милеева INNOVATIONS AND INVENTIONS


    main.isuct.ru/files/publ/PUBL_ALL/INO/14032008_ino.pdf
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    element of novelty in an invention is completed according to the patent law .... also concerns new ideas, responds to new trends and market conditions as well .... The conceptof innovation implies different types of innovation as well as ..... discoveries, political agitation, global or civil wars, ...

  11. Reducing Workplace Toxins with Novelty that Transforms ...


    www.managementexchange.com/.../reducing-workplace-toxins-nov... - Cached
    10 Nov 2010 – We take advantage of new neuro discoveries, and use flexible technology ...For innovation to thrive in stuck organizations, we toss novelty into the mix, ... well as workers' ability to transform tired trends into innovative brainpower. ... pathway to invention is a new concept to many workplaces. ...

  12. How business innovation happens: Technology forecast: PwC


    www.pwc.com/us/en/technology-forecast/.../innovation-disciplined.jhtml
    Yes, by implementing innovation as an end-to-end idea-to-cash process and systematizing... Is radical innovation conceived in a single, stunning act of invention and ... Page did itintuitively, but connecting two patterns from dissimilar .... PwC: Can TRIZ be compared to some other management trend from the past? ...
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    On the optimal novelty requirement in patent protection


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    by K Kultti - 2008 - Cited by 2 - Related articles
    ideas are scarce, and where turning an idea into an innovation requires resources. We ....our model can be interpreted as a cumulative process where the trend has been ... conceptof patent width is such that the wider the patent the higher profits .... We assume that aninvention whose novelty index is a yields ...

  14. Multiple Models of Creativity Encyclopedia Article June 2011 Ten on A3


    www.scribd.com › Research › Business & Economics - Cached
    28 Jun 2011 – The NOVELTY SCIENCES VERSIONS OF Creativity/DiscoveryDesign/Invention Innovation Founding Tech Ventures Fashion Evolution Composing Stories, Games, etc. ... fractal concept models, response stratifications, .... weaken, or destroy creativity causes practitioners to trust intuition exclusively, ...
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    Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early-Stage ...


    www.nist.gov/tpo/sbir/upload/gcr02-841a.pdf
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    Technology Development. A “Between Invention and Innovation Project” Report .... KeyTrends Shaping Corporate R&D and ESTD Investments . ..... bench inventions anddiscoveries into new radical innovations for the marketplace.8 ... vations are created frominventions or other ideas whose novelty may trace to new ...
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    AN ACTION LEARNING APPROACH TO ENTREPRENEURIAL CREATIVITY ...


    upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06282004-124700/.../03chapter3.pdf
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    by AJ ANTONITES - 2003 - Cited by 15 - Related articles
    The concepts: Creativity, innovation and opportunity finding. The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and ... external stimulus in the stimulation of creative idea development. .... the invention process, and came to the conclusion, derived from his ...
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    FAVORISER LA CREATIVITE INDIVIDUELLE POUR DEVELOPPER L'INNOVATION


    www.cergam.org/fileadmin/files/cerog/wp/670.pdf
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    La créativité est un concept central à la compréhension de l'innovation. ... Meanwhile, and in spite of the growing trend in creativity in the world of business, .... it finds itself in, that is to say that creative ideas possess a novelty ..... of innovation, if adapted to the discovery of big and rare inventions, ...
  18. [DOC] 

    Proposal for Doctoral Education in Design: Foiundations for the Future


    www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/.../Gregory_DesignResearch.doc
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    by J Gregory - 2000 - Cited by 6 - Related articles
    I briefly introduce core concepts and methodological principles for ... In computer systems design, for example, these ideas often presuppose impracticable utopias. ... and—against our first intuitions—it is precisely this disunification of ... sciences, and technological invention; emerging activitiesnovelty and ...
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    Novelty and the Bounds of Unknowledge in Economics by Ulrich Witt


    www.econstor.eu/dspace/bitstream/10419/31800/1/558679196.pdf
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    by U Witt - Related articles
    and desires, inventions result in new artefacts, innovations trigger waves of new ...concepts (cf., Hofstadter e.a. 1995, Fauconnier and Turner 2002). ... The imagining anddiscovery of novelty is the result of an inductive ... As mentioned before, the interpretative operation has to be left to our intuition that, ...

  20. THE IMPACT OF MAJOR INNOVATIONS: GUESSWORK OR FORECAST


    demnet.ubi.pt/~tessalen/impact.htm - Cached
    Only those new ideas dealing with a new way to satisfy quantitative purposes ... The development of a basic innovation, from its discovery until its full, ... Being an absolutenovelty, it has a global market, and nobody worries about .... Also within the Internet manyinnovations and software inventions of the ...

  21. Interview with Successful Toy Inventor Tony Ellis ... - Ideas Uploaded


    ideasuploaded.com/interview-with-successful-toy-inventor-tony-elli... - Cached
    22 Dec 2010 – Keeping an Eye on Product Trends for Stimulating Invention Ideas » ... We use a funnel method to determine what concepts go through and this ... Tony: None at all, it's all “gut feeling” and intuition, ... What I can say is that we have just placed 2 science/discovery products to a brand new Client. ...
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    Understanding Private-Sector Decision Making for Early Stage ...


    citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.112.5451...
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    by PE Auerswald - Cited by 10 - Related articles
    examine trends in management of corporate R&D and how new market ... technology development (ESTD) activities that transform lab bench inventions and discoveries ... core component of the Between Invention and Innovation (BII) project at ..... but are NOTInventions. >A firm may take existing ideasconcepts, or ...

  23. innovation: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com


    www.answers.com › Library › Business & Finance - Cached
    Distinguishing an element of novelty in an invention remains a concern of patent law. ... or method in business practice immediately subsequent to its discovery. ... Innovation applies not only to new business and product ideas, .... Intuition and Imagination - innovation: new way of doing or viewing something ...

  24. Creativity: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com


    www.answers.com › Library › Health - Cached
    Creativity is the ability to think up and design new inventions, .... Dr. Kelman Outlines Three Elements of Creativity: Inspiration, Insight, Intuition. ... The term "creativity" is not used by Sigmund Freud but the concept is .... Some of these, like 'innovation' and 'discovery', have a bearing on the ideas or ...
  25. [PPT] 

    INNOVATION MANAGEMENT


    www.kip.zcu.cz/kursy/imi/INNOVATION_MANAGEMENT.ppt
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    Lesson 1. Introduction. Basic concepts. Importance of innovations ... Technologicalinnovations – based on specific technology, inventiondiscovery,; Social innovations – in critical historic periods more important than technological ones ... elaborates independently in details the ideas which he gets to elaborate ...
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    398 Idea Management for Organisational Innovation


    www.anale-ing.uem.ro/2008/2008_a55.pdf
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    developing ideas towards eventual organisational innovations. ... (1997) state that "noveltyis very much in the eye of the beholder". In its ... the combination of existing ideas into new and useful concepts to satisfy a need" ... inventions. It is also widely recognised that immersion in one's subject matter can ...
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    THE INTERNET MEETS OBI-WAN KENOBI IN THE COURT OF NEXT RESORT


    www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/.../vertinsky&rice.pdf
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    by L VERTINSKY - 2002 - Cited by 6 - Related articles
    computation for human intuition; the decreased cost and increased speed of ... boundaries between traditional concepts of invention, inventor, and instruments of invention. ... of statutory tests such as novelty and non-obviousness, and logistical ..... diffusion of ideas and thus the volume and pace of innovation. ...

  28. Inventing Invention: A Case Study of Legal Innovation


    https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/.../app?...
    by JF Duffy - 2007 - Cited by 46 - Related articles
    Friedrich-Karl Beier 1 This is a story about innovation - legal . ... of innovations (i.e., things that satisfy the novelty requirement found in ž 102 of the ..... researchers from knowledge of new discoveries and to continue funding their researchers' ... The basic intuition is that for such trivial "inventions" ...

  29. Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity - Cached
    The concept is popularized by futurists like Ray Kurzweil and widely expected ... Kurzweil writes that, due to paradigm shifts, a trend of exponential growth .... jest) about the recentinvention of a four function mechanical calculator: ... their own defects and then grind outideas beyond the ken of mortal mind! ...
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    Innovation and Industry Life Cycle: the Case of US Tire Industry ...


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    2.2 Discovery, knowledge, invention and innovation: basic notions . ... 2.3 Common classification of inventions and innovations . ..... Evidence and Trends . ..... The research group works with a variety of theoretical concepts and ... novelty was the creation of a new classification based on USPTO (United States ...
  31. [DOC] 

    The creation of novelty in the creative industries


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    by C Handke - Related articles
    As the compound expression suggests, the intuition might be that creative industries are hotbeds for new ideas and their ... Innovation is a multifaceted concept, however. On the one hand, ... According to Dosi (1988), for example, “innovation concerns the search for, and the discovery, experimentation, development ...

  32. D1.1 - IdSpace Wiki


    wiki.idspace.mssm.nl/D1.1 - Cached
    19 Mar 2010 – 3.1 “Novelty” linking creativity, inventiveness and innovation .... outline The role of externalization of ideas.42] ... We explore the concepts of creativity, invention andinnovation as important concepts in the context of NPD. ... The concept of 'invention' is used for the act of discovery itself ...
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    Brief Introduction to the National Open Innovation System (NOIS ...


    www.massidea.org/.../Brief_Introduction_to_the_National_Open_Innovatio...
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    by T Santonen - Cited by 3 - Related articles
    new ideas, our National Open Innovation System (NOIS) combines two rival ... Recently there has been increased attention on the concept of “open ... Intellectual curiosity can initiate idea generation that leads to a new discovery. ... because novelties produce great pleasure and because invention fulfils his ...
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    Trends and Problems in Research of Permanent Magnets for Motors ...


    www.nistep.go.jp/achiev/ftx/eng/stfc/stt038e/qr38pdf/STTqr3803.pdf
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    by S KOZAWA
    innovation by mobilizing all magnet researchers in ... Revolutionary discoveries andinventions drawing public attention were made only .... interdisciplinary ideas, and passion and chance. ..... excellent in terms of their novelty.”[21] ... The nanocomposite magnet is aconcept discovered ...
  35. [PDF] 

    Clusters, Networks and Creativity


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    by C Karlsson - 2010 - Related articles
    O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives .... a mental and a social process involving discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associa- tions between existing ideasor concepts, i.e. novelty by combination (Schumpeter, 1934). ... both a way of thinking “associated with intuition, inspiration, ...

  36. The Next Idea: Creativity and Innovation


    nextideacreativity.blogspot.com/ - Cached
    Consider yourself a member of the new “WOW Idea” club. .... conscious activity guided by the laws of logic rather than Intuition and heuristics in .... With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: ..... 7 SMALL COMPANIES WITH BIG INVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS ...
  37. [PDF] 

    Running Head: Creative Cognition Empirical Studies of Creative ...


    www.tamu.edu/faculty/.../Smith_Gerkens_Shah_Vargas-Hernandez.pdf
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    by SM Smith - Cited by 8 - Related articles
    The fluency, flexibility, novelty, and practicality of ideas ... experiments, as well as theconcept of alignment in experimental methods is discussed. ... Creativity and innovation are seen as critically important in many applied .... achievement. Causes of the creative products,inventions, and discoveries, ...
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    Observations of Concept Generation and Sketching in Design


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    by MC YANG - Cited by 8 - Related articles
    One of the questions we address is, “Does the quantity of ideas generated ... quality is by theconcept's novelty. If a roomful of designers was asked to .... analysis, engineering intuition, engineering fabrication and arts-and-crafts. ..... Zwicky F (1969) DiscoveryInvention, Research through the Morphological ...

  39. Is Marketing the Enemy of Pharmaceutical Innovation? (Kalman ...


    uwm.academia.edu/.../Is_Marketing_the_Enemy_of_Pharmaceutical... - Cached
    5 Some have had the intuition that these two trends are connected, but the dots ...Discovery of medical cures relies on honestly pursued scientific outcomes and .... Branding is about the ownership of ideas. The Cox-2 inhibitors are the most ... Marketing and scientificconcepts of value can but need not overlap. ...
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    The nature of innovation and implications on innovation management


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    by KP Schulz - Related articles
    the concept of innovation. Based on this pattern I will describe the diffusion ... idea “novelty” and “change”. Among the uncountable definitions of ... especially distinguishes between the emergence of ideas, the invention ... discovery. The perceived newness of the idea for the individual determines his or her ...
  41. [PDF] 

    Ideas and Their Embodiments


    www.law.tulane.edu/uploadedfiles/WIPIP/2008/Chiang_Paper.pdf
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    Ideas and Their Embodiments. T.J. Chiang†. The concept of “invention” is fundamental to patent law. ... novelty of their embodiment, while ignoring that the ..... Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk 46-72 (2007); ... Discoveries” (emphasis added)); see Adam Mossoff, Rethinking the Development of ...
  42. [PDF] 

    SCIENCE IN THE KITCHEN. A PARADIGM FOR CULINARY SERVICES INNOVATION


    www2.druid.dk/conferences/viewpaper.php?id=5917&cf=32
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    by J Hervas-oliver - Related articles
    the concept of delivery innovation (Miles, 1995). However, the trend towards a .... symbolic knowledge related with ideas, culture, values and social perception. ... order to profit from these and this entails search and discovery ... Chefs in accordance with their own intuitionor those market tendencies captured ...

  43. Inventing Invention: a Case Study of Legal Innovation by John F. Duffy


    www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5037462694
    Second, copyrights protect only particular expressions of ideas,28 but patent rights ... patent law has always required novelty as a substantial element of the .... This fourth function of nonobviousness brings us back to the intuition of ... American law invented a concept ofinvention or nonobviousness that is ...

  44. Innovation Science


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    Brent Edwards' thoughts on innovation in business and science. ... reviewing the basicconcepts of his first book: the process of disruptive innovation. ..... Inventions that lacknovelty but are erroneously issued can become legal ..... where ideas are not readily apparent from current customer and market trends. ...

  45. How Working Memory and the Cerebellum Collaborate to Produce ...


    www.informaworld.com/.../ftinterface~db=all~content=a787962535~fullte...
    It is proposed that (a) creativity and innovation are the result of continuously ... Einstein's Autobiographical Accounts of Discovery and Invention ... of “insight,” and what has traditionally been called“intuition” in the arts and .... In thought, ideas and concepts are manipulated just as limbs are in movements. ...

  46. education - Blogging Innovation - Innovation blog articles, videos ...


    www.business-strategy-innovation.com/labels/education.html - Cached
    I've sensed that novelty, human intelligence, and social media can offer assurance ... Blog opposite ideas to build from polar ends. Too many similar routines in toxic ... You might start a back-and-forth on YouTube inventions such as pickle ..... of the categories where newdiscoveries are driving new innovations. ...

  47. Formation of Invention/Joint Invention and Recognition of Inventor ...


    works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=kotaro...
    by K Kageyama - 2009 - Related articles
    Court (Otsuka Pharmaceutical's "drug discovery" case) .... ideas" exists in an invention, one needs to know "the laws of ... Novelty and inventiveness are, with industrial applicability,... (1) Mere Intuitions and Conceptions based on a Principle in ..... Together with the recenttrends of increasing awareness ...
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    WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/33 Innovation and Dynamism ...


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    by J Kornai - 2010 - Cited by 2 - Related articles
    relevant inventions and innovations. The main inclusion criterion was ... the one to whom the new idea occurs. However, the originality of the idea, its novelty, .... happens many times that an invention or discovery and an entrepreneur do .... intuitively sense the huge number of the attempts, and compared to that ...
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    Understanding change in education: an introduction; Experiments ...


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    the concept of innovation. The changes that occur in education may be small or large; in a given system, ... not necessarily an invention. But what distinguishes an innovation ...tional ideas, habits and patterns normally change very slowly. ... it seems, the quest fornovelty must be subordinated to the desire ...
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    Influence of the technological innovation degree on knowledge ...


    www.academicjournals.org/ajbm/pdf/pdf2010/.../Stefanovitz%20et%20al.p...
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    by JP Stefanovitz - 2010 - Cited by 3 - Related articles
    11 Mar 2010 – fundamental dimensions: novelty and feasibility to create ... the process of transforming inventions into products ... Converting ideas and concepts into ..... trends in embedded software which took place in London, a short ... is to define the problem, increased his intuition power to choose the ...

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Taliban say Mullah Omar death report false, phones hacked
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:13 PM PDT
Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban denied on Wednesday their supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar had died, saying false messages claiming his death had been sent to media after their mobile phones, email accounts and a website had been hacked into. Full Story

photoNUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - China and Southeast Asian countries agreed Wednesday to a preliminary set of guidelines in the South China Sea dispute, the Chinese side said, a rare sign of cooperation in a row that has plagued relations in the region for years.

Militants storm Kandahar police station, kill commander
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:46 PM PDT
Reuters - KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Militants stormed a police station in Afghanistan's volatile southern Kandahar city on Wednesday killing the commander of the station and sparking an ongoing gun battle, Kandahar officials said. Full Story

China raises death toll to 18 in Xinjiang
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:24 PM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday raised the death toll to 18 from a clash at a police station in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, saying that 14 "rioters" died along with two policemen and two hostages in the worst violence there in a year. Full Story

Strong quake hits Central Asia, buildings damaged
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:07 PM PDT
Reuters - OSH, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake hit Central Asia's densely populated Ferghana valley early on Wednesday, shaking homes and sending residents of several Uzbek and Kyrgyz cities onto the streets in panic, residents said. Full Story

Police seize "Cash Cab" in probe of fatal accident
Tue,19 Jul 2011 04:53 PM PDT
Reuters - VANCOUVER, B.C. (Reuters) - Investigators have seized the taxi from the Canadian edition of the TV show "Cash Cab" to see if it had any mechanical defect that may have contributed to a fatal accident involving the vehicle, police said on Tuesday. Full Story

Syrian military assaults intensify on Homs, 16 killed
Tue,19 Jul 2011 03:45 PM PDT
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photoAMMAN, July 19 (Reuters) - Syrian troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed 16 people in attacks in the city of Homs on Tuesday, residents said, an escalation of a crackdown against a focal point for pro-democracy protests.

Lawyer for Strauss-Kahn's French accuser meets D.A.
Tue,19 Jul 2011 03:37 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for two women who accuse former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rapes in France and America met New York prosecutors on Tuesday, although it was not clear what they discussed. Full Story

"Humble" Murdoch defends record, attacked by protester
Tue,19 Jul 2011 03:22 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoLONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch, unfazed by a foam pie attack in the British parliament, made a "humble" apology on Tuesday for crimes that have rocked his media empire and the government but refused to resign, saying the fault lay with staff who "betrayed" him.

Strong earthquake hits Central Asia: USGS
Tue,19 Jul 2011 02:54 PM PDT
Reuters - ALMATY (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit Central Asia's densely populated Ferghana valley early on Wednesday, shaking buildings in the region and sending residents of at least one Uzbek city onto the streets, local residents said. Full Story

On stage, Murdoch plays up humility, regret
Tue,19 Jul 2011 02:39 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch called it the most humble day of his life, and he can rarely have looked as ill at ease as he did during Tuesday's parliamentary hearing into the phone hacking scandal that has shaken his media empire. Full Story

Libyan rebels say they have encircled Brega
Tue,19 Jul 2011 01:53 PM PDT
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photoMISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan rebels have encircled the eastern oil hub of Brega and control parts of the town, whose capture would mark a major boost for their campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi, a rebel spokesman said on Tuesday.

Magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Uzbekistan: USGS
Tue,19 Jul 2011 12:56 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Uzbekistan, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday. Full Story

Slain kids cast larger shadow on Mexican drug war
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:53 AM PDT
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photoMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Once largely spectators to the deaths of hitmen, police and innocent bystanders, children are increasingly in the firing line of Mexico's drug war.

France's Hollande to be questioned over Banon case
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:44 AM PDT
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photoPARIS (Reuters) - French presidential contender Francois Hollande will be questioned by police investigating a writer's accusations that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, legal sources said on Tuesday.

Italy's Berlusconi probed on talk show allegations
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:42 AM PDT
Reuters - ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is being investigated by magistrates over allegations of pressuring state broadcaster RAI to suppress a program critical of the government, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Full Story

France's Hollande to be questioned over Banon case
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:40 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French presidential contender Francois Hollande will be questioned by police investigating a writer's accusations that ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, legal sources said on Tuesday. Full Story

Afghan transition town expects more Taliban attacks
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:32 AM PDT
Reuters - LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents will carry out more attacks to try to disrupt a security handover in Afghanistan, the governor of Helmand province said on Tuesday, a day before the capital of his own province is due to transfer to Afghan control. Full Story

Yemen opposition forms council to oust president
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:15 AM PDT
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photoSANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's mainstream opposition coalition said on Tuesday it would set up a "National Council for the Forces of the Revolution" to lead efforts to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh and end months of violence.

Israeli navy seizes Gaza-bound yacht
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:26 AM PDT
Reuters - ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) - The Israeli navy seized a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists heading for the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday and forced it to go to Israel's Ashdod port. Full Story

Egypt cabinet to be sworn in on PM's return: sources
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:10 AM PDT
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photoCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has put off plans to swear in a new cabinet until Prime Minister Essam Sharaf recovers from a drop in blood pressure and returns to work, cabinet sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

Pakistan appoints first woman foreign minister
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:33 AM PDT
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photoISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan Tuesday appointed its first woman and youngest foreign minister within weeks of important talks with India.

Blasts hit Tunisia gas pipeline, still working
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:24 AM PDT
Reuters - TUNIS (Reuters) - A pipeline that delivers gas from Algeria to Italy via Tunisia was hit by two explosions in northern Tunisia Monday but is still functioning, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Full Story

U.N. set to declare famine in parts of Somalia
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:08 AM PDT
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photoGENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations is set to declare famine in parts of southern Somalia, aid officials said Tuesday, signaling to donors the need for more aid and to insurgents that the population's suffering is taken seriously.

Greece jails six "Fire Cells" guerrillas for bombings
Tue,19 Jul 2011 08:51 AM PDT
Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - Six Greeks were sentenced to prison Tuesday for belonging to a guerrilla group which has claimed a spate of bomb attacks across the country since 2009, court officials said. Full Story

Russia's Medvedev says compromise possible in Libya
Tue,19 Jul 2011 08:18 AM PDT
Reuters - HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that compromise was possible between Libya's rebels and government, adding that supporting one side in the conflict was "exceptionally bad" for Libya. Full Story

Iran says installing new nuclear centrifuges
Tue,19 Jul 2011 08:03 AM PDT
Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is installing new centrifuges to enrich uranium as part of its efforts to speed up its nuclear program, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, in an announcement likely to alarm Western powers. Full Story

Tunisia gas pipe hit by blast but still working
Tue,19 Jul 2011 07:50 AM PDT
Reuters - TUNIS (Reuters) - A pipeline that delivers gas from Algeria to Italy via Tunisia was hit by an explosion in northern Tunisia on Monday but is still functioning, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Full Story

Corruption, illiteracy hold back Afghan police
Tue,19 Jul 2011 07:42 AM PDT
Reuters - LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - When NATO forces in Afghanistan caught an opium producer with 15 kgs (33 lbs) of drugs, they might have expected his family to plead for his freedom. Instead, an Afghan police officer appealed to foreign troops to release him. Full Story

NATO hits Gaddafi convoys near oil town: rebel
Tue,19 Jul 2011 07:40 AM PDT
Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - NATO helicopters Tuesday attacked military convoys as they tried to re-supply Muammar Gaddafi's forces fighting over the eastern Libyan town of Brega, a rebel spokesman said. Full Story

Afghan, Pakistan presidents meet amid new tensions
Tue,19 Jul 2011 07:36 AM PDT
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photoKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, on Tuesday amid heightened tension between the neighbors and as some Afghan lawmakers raised fears that Pakistan's spy agency was behind recent assassinations.

Phone-hacking whistleblower found dead: reports
Tue,19 Jul 2011 07:10 AM PDT
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photoLONDON (Reuters) - A former journalist who told the New York Times that phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World was more extensive than the paper had acknowledged at the time, has been found dead, media reported on Monday.

photoLASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded near a police station outside a crucial city in Afghanistan's south Tuesday where Afghan forces are readying to assume security responsibility within hours, another worrying sign as insurgents seek to disrupt a gradual transition process.

Factbox: Latest developments in Libyan conflict
Tue,19 Jul 2011 07:06 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Following are the latest political and military developments in the Libyan crisis. Full Story

Guinean president escapes assassination bid at home
Tue,19 Jul 2011 05:43 AM PDT
Reuters - CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinean President Alpha Conde escaped a sustained rocket and gunfire attack on his residence on Tuesday that killed one person and left his home riddled with bullet holes. Full Story

Timeline: Phone hacking scandal hits News Corp
Tue,19 Jul 2011 05:29 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Here is a timeline of events in the phone-hacking scandal since it emerged on July 4 that murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler's, phone was hacked. Full Story

China blames terrorists for attack in Xinjiang
Tue,19 Jul 2011 05:19 AM PDT
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - A clash at a police station that left at least four people dead in western China's restive Xinjiang region was "a terrorist attack," a government official said on Tuesday, but an exile Uighur group accused police of firing on peaceful protesters. Full Story

Explosions rock Bulgaria opposition parties' offices
Tue,19 Jul 2011 05:16 AM PDT
Reuters - SOFIA (Reuters) - Small explosions rocked the offices of two right-wing opposition parties in central Sofia early on Tuesday, causing only minor damage, police said. Full Story

SPORTS News, Jul 20, 2011

Analysis: Yao retirement deals blow to league's China efforts
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:34 PM PDT
Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - Yao Ming provided the National Basketball Association (NBA) with slam dunk marketing ventures in China and his retirement on Wednesday will severely reduce interest for the game in Asia, according to experts. Full Story
Yao a towering figure on and off the court
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:34 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A towering sports figure on and off the court, Yao Ming not only proved himself a force in the National Basketball Association, he was also a source of pride and symbol of China's emergence as a sporting giant. Full Story
Factbox: Yao Ming retires after eight NBA seasons
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:34 PM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Houston Rockets center Yao Ming retired on Wednesday after eight seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Full Story
Yao Ming retires from basketball
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:20 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoSHANGHAI (Reuters) - Yao Ming, who ignited China's interest in the NBA and became one of Asia's best-known athletes, announced his retirement from basketball on Wednesday.
Dominant Rangers beat Angels for 12th straight win
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:56 PM PDT
Reuters - ANAHEIM, California (Reuters) - The Texas Rangers extended their winning streak to 12 games Tuesday with a 7-0 victory over divisional rivals the Los Angeles Angels.Full Story
Davis steals the show as Blue Jays edge
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:05 PM PDT
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photoTORONTO (Reuters) - Rajai Davis loves driving opposing pitchers crazy and the speedy Toronto Blue Jays outfielder did just that on Wednesday by stealing three bases in a 6-5 extra-innings win over the slumping Seattle Mariners.
Blackhawks' Kane on track for full recovery after surgery
Tue,19 Jul 2011 04:50 PM PDT
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photoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane had surgery on his left wrist on Tuesday and is expected to be fit for the start of training camp in September, the National Hockey League team said.
Jays to retire Hall of Famer Alomar's number
Tue,19 Jul 2011 04:44 PM PDT
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photoTORONTO (Reuters) - Roberto Alomar, the unproven name in a trade that transformed Toronto in to back-to-back World Series champions, has become the first Blue Jay to have his number retired.
photoPITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Pittsburgh Steelers running back RashardMendenhall is suing Hanesbrands Inc. for terminating an endorsement deal after the football player posted controversial messages on Twitter following the death of Osama bin Laden, his attorney said on Tuesday.
Lightning sign high-scoring Stamkos to five-year deal
Tue,19 Jul 2011 01:24 PM PDT
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photoMIAMI (Reuters) - High-scoring free agent Steven Stamkos signed a five-year contract to stay with the Tampa Bay Lightning, the National Hockey League team said on Tuesday.
Devils name DeBoer as new head coach
Tue,19 Jul 2011 12:47 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New Jersey Devils named Peter DeBoer as their new head coach on Tuesday. Full Story
Contador's surprise attack revives Tour hopes
Tue,19 Jul 2011 12:10 PM PDT
Reuters - GAP, France (Reuters) - Just as the Tour de France seemed to be cruising peacefully toward the Alps, Alberto Contador rocked the peloton on Tuesday with an unexpected attack that revived his hopes of a fourth victory in the race. Full Story
Red Wings goalie Osgood retires after 17 seasons
Tue,19 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT
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photoDETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Red Wings netminder Chris Osgood, one of only 10 National Hockey League (NHL) goalies to win 400 games, announced his retirement on Tuesday.
Schleck unhappy to lose time on tricky descent
Tue,19 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT
Reuters - GAP, France (Reuters) - Andy Schleck lost time in the climb following Alberto Contador's attack and more seconds in a tricky descent to the finish of the 16th stage before turning his anger toward Tour de France organizers on Tuesday. Full Story
Contador and Evans break Tour de France truce
Tue,19 Jul 2011 09:22 AM PDT
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photoGAP, France (Reuters) - The Tour de France truce ended in the hilly 16th stage to Gap on Tuesday when Alberto Contador showed he was far from finished and Cadel Evans emerged as the man to beat in the last week.