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Invention : the care and feeding of ideas / Norbert Wiener ; with an introduction by Steve Joshua Heims.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 159 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585369178
  • 9780585369174
  • 0262286181
  • 9780262286183
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invention.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 20
LOC classification:
  • T15 .W65 1993eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes index.

Print version record.

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.

English.

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