Innovation
Effective design draws from multiple areas of expertise, and this can be utilised at different stages of product development.
Multidisciplinary approach
An agreement from a government office to give someone the right to make or sell a new invention for a certain number of years.
Patent
standard of its time- often imitated designs.
Dominant design
An individual working outside or inside an organization who is committed to the invention of a novel product and often becomes isolated because he or she is engrossed with ideas that imply change and are resisted by others.
Lone Inventor
a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product.
Trademark
Who typically funds a project?
Entreupreneur
What must be present to enable inventions to become innovations?
Financial support
Marketability
Need of a product
A legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive ownership for its use and distribution. Usually for a limited time and within geographical boundaries
Copyright
describes the process of using a solution in one field to solve a problem in another field?
Adaptation
a series of small improvements or upgrades made to a company's existing products, services, processes or methods
Incremental innovation
The first product of this type to be rushed onto the market.
First to market
The basic configuration stays the same, but one or more key components are changed.
Modular innovation
What is a BENEFIT of being a lone inventor?
Full control
Technology that is pushed back for various reasons. Sometimes they will be rediscovered or taken off the shelf.
Shelved technologies
Accidentally inventing
Chance