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Review of Theories of Invention and Innovation
This paper review existing theories of invention and innovation putting them at the center of the understanding of cultural change. After a survey of different categories of inventions and innovations, it introduces a taxonomy relying on the origins of invention and innovation highligting individual qualities, social invironments, resources access and incentives for problem solving.
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http://www.infra.kth.se/cesis/documents/WP47.pdf