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Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond
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Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity for Business and Beyond

by Alan Axelrod
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 1m
English
Jossey-Bass
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9.6. Lesson 84: Make Creativity a Predictable Process

Edison came to hold over a thousand patents, but he could not patent what was perhaps his single most significant invention: his own creative method. That was an innovation that shattered two enduring and pervasive patterns of production. The first was the long-held and rarely challenged belief that industrial production was incompatible with individual craftsmanship. The second was that invention was essentially born of inspiration and furthered by genius and was therefore entirely unpredictable. To overcome these crippling mythologies, Edison established at Menlo Park, New Jersey, what he called an "invention factory." It combined laboratory, workshop, and factory, and it employed scientists ...

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