Inventions.

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What is an invention?

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product or a new process for creating an object or a result.

An invention that archieves a completely unique function or result may be a radical breakthrough.

Another meaning of invention is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviours adopted by people and passed on the others.

The Institute for Social Inventions, collected many such ideas in megazines and books.

Invention is also an important component of artistic and design creativity. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge, experience or capability.

Invention is often a creative process. An open and curious mind allows an inventor to see beyond what is known.

Seeing a new possibility, connection or relationship can spark an invention. Inventive thinking frequently involves combinng concepts or elements rom different realms that would not normally be put together.

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Three areas of invention

Inventions are of three kinds:

scientific-technological (including medicine)

sociopolitical (including economics and law)

humanistic, or cultural

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Scientific-techonological inventions

Scientific-technological inventions include railroads, aviations, vaccination, hybridization, antibiotics, astronautics, holography, the atomic bomb, computering,the Internet, and the smartphone.

Invention is the most important product of scientific knowledge. Without invention, science would be merely inquiry for its own sake, serving few and helping no one.

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Sociopolitical inventions

Sociopolitical invention comprise new laws, institutios, and procedures that change modes of social behavior and establish new forms of human interaction and organization.

Examples include the British Parliament, the US Consitution, the Manchester (UK) General Union of Trades, the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the Olympic Games the United Nation, The European Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as movements such as socialism, suffragism, feminism and animal-righs veganism.

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Humanistic inventions

Humanistic inventions encompass culture in its entirety and are as trasformative and important as any in the sciences, although people tend to take them for granted. In the domain of linguistics, for example, many alphabets have been inventions, as are all neologisms (Shakespeare invented about 1,700 words). Literaly inventions include the epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel, the sonnet, the Renaissance, neoclassicism, Romanticism Symbolism, Aestheticims, Socialist Realism, Surrealism, postmodernism, and (according to Freud) psychoanalysis.

Among the inventions of artists and musicians are oil painting, atonality, jazz, rock,opera, and the symphony orchestra.

Philosophers have invented dialectics, idealism, utopia, anarchism, positivism, and materialism.

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MEANING:

Invention refers to the occurrence of an idea for a product or process that has never been made before.

Innovation implies the implementation of idea for product or process for the very first time.

WHAT IS IT? :

Invention : creation of a new product

Innovation : adding value to something already existing

CONCEPT :

Invention : an original idea and its working in theory

Innovation : practical implemetation of a new idea

OCCURS WHEN :

Invention : New idea strikes a scientist

Innovation : a need is felt for a product or improvement in existing product

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