PROLOGUE
What Drives Invention?
There’s no thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor who sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.
—NIKOLA TESLA
HYBRID CARS. Portable digital music players. Handheld computers powered by fuel cells. Experimental gene therapies. Drug-dispensing nanobots. We’re impressed with breakthrough inventions when we first come into contact with them—before we begin to take their existence for granted. But understanding invention itself is another thing. Invention is the core of innovation, the process by which new products or methods or entire new companies are evolved and introduced. Inventions can create value in the marketplace or create entire new marketplaces.1 These growing ...
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