Invention : the care and feeding of ideas /
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| Author / Creator: | Wiener, Norbert, 1894-1964 |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993. |
| Description: | xxi, 159 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1453907 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Steve Joshua Heims
- 1. The Need and Conditions for Invention
- 2. The Intellectual Climate and Invention
- 3. Circumstances Favorable and Unfavorable to Original Ideas
- 4. The Technical Climate and Invention
- 5. The Social Climate and Invention
- 6. The Scientific Climate at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
- 7. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science
- 8. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science, Part II
- 9. Noncalculable Risks and the Economic Environment of Invention
- 10. Patents and Invention: The American Patent System
- 11. Goals and Problems.
