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Enhancing inventiveness for quality of life, competitiveness, and sustainability

Enhancing inventiveness for quality of life, competitiveness, and sustainability is a report by the Committee for the Study of Invention, sponsored by the Lemelson-MIT Program and the National Science Foundation. It is based on an invention study undertaken by 56 leading scholars and practitioners during a series of five workshops in 2003. The report was released April 23, 2004, at the Invention Assembly in Washington, D.C. 

Summarizes findings and recommendations of a yearlong study on invention and inventiveness, in order to shed light on invention and on the special kind of creativity involved in inventing.

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