Collective Inventions
Collective Inventions

Author: Patricia Allmer

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Collective Inventions constitutes the first collection and book-length publication on Surrealism in Belgium on which Belgian and Anglo-American scholars have collaborated.Collective Inventions offers new writings by leading international scholars and experts on the movement's diverse manifestations in Belgium. The essays range from comparative analyses of Surrealism in Belgium with other versions of Surrealism, particularly French, to detailed critical engagements with individual oeuvres. The authors use contemporary theoretical and critical models to explore artistic production in a variety of media, including painting and photography, film and fashion, postcards and Perspex. Collective Inventions significantly alters and widens current understandings of Surrealism.

World Industrialization
World Industrialization

Author: Michel Vigezzi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1786303965

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Based on the paradigms of economics and management, inspired by the history of technology and the sociology of technological change, the concepts of shared inventions and competitive innovations make it possible to analyze the industrialization of the world in a fresh and efficient way. As a new approach, shared inventions are classified in this book as a set of existing knowledge thats often associated with the rediscovery of old techniques. Determining capitalized and collective intelligence, this knowledge and reinvention allows us to create inventions which will be shared, first in their construction, then in their use. Another new approach is that these competitive innovations are defined in World Industrialization by associations of experiences of competitively-motivated actors – actors seeking to complement existing techniques by increasing their competitive power. These shared inventions and competitive innovations will also be defined by trajectories identifying their modes of creation, enabling us to overcome the peculiarities of these actions and competitions. This book also highlights four key areas in global industrialization: the emergence of machinism with the defense of Arts and Crafts from 1698–1760; the changes the Industrial Revolution wrought in developed nations from 1760–1850; the link between technology and social relations within modern companies from 1850–1914; and, from 1914 onwards, the birth of extended machinism, its world wars and its global crises.

Invention as a Social Act
Invention as a Social Act

Author: Karen Burke LeFevre

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1986-10-17

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 080939085X

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The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention. Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disciplines, Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atomistic individual. She proposes that invention be viewed as a social act, in which individuals interact dialectically with society and culture in distinctive ways. Even when the primary agent of invention is an individual, invention is pervasively affected by relationships of that individual to others through language and other socially shared symbol systems. LeFevre draws implications of a view of invention as a social act for writers, researchers, and teachers of writing.

The Right to Employee Inventions in Patent Law
The Right to Employee Inventions in Patent Law

Author: Kazuhide Odaki

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1509920323

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Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends. This book addresses the issue through reference to recent, large-scale surveys on the motivation of employee inventors (in Europe, the United States and Japan) and studies in social psychology and econometrics, arguing that the compensation is unlikely to boost the motivation, productivity and creativity of employee inventors, and thereby encourage the creation of inventions. It also discusses the ownership of inventions made by university researchers, giving due consideration to the need to ensure open science and their academic freedom. Challenging popular assumptions, this book provides a solution to a critical issue by arguing that compensation for employee inventions should not be made mandatory regardless of jurisdiction because there is no legitimate reason to require employers to pay it. This means that patent law does not need to give employee inventors an 'incentive to invent' separately from the 'incentive to innovate' which is already given to employers.

Schumpeterian Puzzles
Schumpeterian Puzzles

Author: Maria Brouwer

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780472102549

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Combines Schumpeter's theory and modern economics to give a new view of innovation in small and large firms

Flexible Innovation
Flexible Innovation

Author: Jorge Niosi

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 0773513345

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Basing his study on in-depth interviews with more than 130 companies across Canada, Jorge Niosi analyses the scope of collaborative research activities - both domestic and international - in the fields of biotechnology, electronics, advanced materials, and manufacturing of transportation equipment. He describes successful patterns of collaboration, obstacles and limitations, and the role of public policy, universities, and government laboratories in technological alliances. He compares Canadian partnerships and public policy with similar patterns in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Free Revealing
Free Revealing

Author: Oliver Alexy

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-02-25

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 3834980684

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Using the example of corporate OSS engagement, Oliver Alexy shows how free revealing can be carried out both effectively and efficiently by companies. He evaluates potential advantages and disadvantages and looks at related organizational processes to understand how this practice diffuses within the corporation and how firms can use it successfully.

The Innovation Society and Intellectual Property
The Innovation Society and Intellectual Property

Author: Josef Drexl

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1789902355

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Intellectual property (IP) rights impact innovation in diverse ways. This book critically analyses whether additional rights beyond patents, trademarks and copyrights are needed to promote innovation. Featuring contributions from thought-leaders in the field of IP, this book examines the check and balances that already exist in the IP system to safeguard innovation and questions to what extent existing IP regimes are capable of catering to new paradigms of innovation and creativity.