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Tables of Contents for Invention
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Steve Joshua Heims
Preface
xxiii
The Need and Conditions for Invention
1
10
The Intellectual Climate and Invention
11
14
Circumstances Favorable and Unfavorable to Original Ideas
25
12
The Technical Climate and Invention
37
18
The Social Climate and Invention
55
8
The Scientific Climate at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
63
14
The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science
77
12
The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science, Part II
89
24
Noncalculable Risks and the Economic Environment of Invention
113
14
Patents and Invention: The American Patent System
127
14
Goals and Problems
141
14
Index
155