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Makers at work : folks reinventing the world one object or idea at a time
\"What do you get when you combine an electronics hobbyist, hacker, garage mechanic, kitchen table inventor, tinkerer, and entrepreneur? A maker, of course. Playful and creative, makers are--through expertise and experimentation--creating art, products, and processes that change the way we think and interact with the world ... Meet the individuals who define what it means to be a maker. Learn about the tools and technologies driving the new industrial revolution. Discover ways to scale your weekend project into a profitable business. See how others have used to crowdfunding to make their visions a reality. Learn how open-source hardware and software is enabling whole new categories of products by removing barriers of entry for inventors\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Stanley Rule & Level Company's Cable Phrases and Telegraph Codes
Together with Alfred Vail, his partner, financial backer, and co-inventor, Morse developed a successful single-wire telegraph.1 Although inventors had developed previous multi-wire telegraphs, none proved commercially successful (Figure 1). Within a short time, Americans used the word telegram to describe a message sent via telegraph wires within the United States, while people used the word cablegram or cable in reference to a telegraph message sent via a submarine cable.3 The cost of sending a telegram or cable was high and was only justified by the speed at which the message could be transmitted compared to regular mail. Sending and receiving orders via telegram or cable was a real boon to marketing and expediting the shipment of orders. Since the cost of sending a telegram was high, businesses, including Stanley Rule & Level Co., quickly developed methods to reduce the word count of telegrams, thereby reducing the cost of the telegram. After receiving the telegram, the shipping department staff at Stanley checked their list of Stanley s cable phrases and knew that Acme Tool in Kansas City wanted: CONVENT RACER- 1 case of No. 65 1 Foot Four-fold Carpenter s Rules, CONFAB PATHOS- 2 cases of No. 605 Bedrock Jack Planes GOPHER ABODE-1 gross of No. 1 Handled Steel 4\" Scratch Awls DODGER SALUTO- 4 dozen No. 54 Adjustable Spoke Shaves DOCTRINE PEAJACKET- 3 dozen No. 78 Duplex Rabbet & Filletster Planes All these somewhat nonsensical and often humorous phrases were created and used to keep down the cost of sending a telegram.
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So you want to be an inventor?
Presents some of the characteristics of inventors by describing the inventions of people such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney.
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Organizational Environment and Innovation
There is a popular notion that the life of innovators and inventors is a glorious and enviable one because they have talents which others do not have, and because they can overcome any obstacles. These talents are, in the popular interpretation, something mysterious, indefinable and inimitable. But in reality, the innovators and inventors have to deal with many serious and pernicious obstacles which are unknown to other people. Those who are unaware of the obstacles must become aware of them and must reduce them, because the reduction of these obstacles will greatly facilitate the works of innovators and inventors. Another problem is the assumption that all people use the same logic, and therefore if you explain hard enough, you will be understood. Existence of heterogeneity of individual logical types (perceptual/cognitive/cogitative action types, abbreviated as mindscape types) is ignored, or at least exoticated as irrelevant. This article discusses these problems, with concrete experiential examples. This article also uses the methodology of raw-experience visualization-enabling communication (REVEC) with which the readers can formulate their own grounded theories independent from the theory of the writer.
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Innovations in everyday technologies
This title explores the gadgets, structures, and materials that we depend on every single day, and the amazing inventors, scientists, and engineers who dreamed them up! These inventions make things easier in our day-to-day lives. With a little inventive thinking, what might you create to help make our daily lives a little easier?
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Caracterización de spin-off universitarias de base tecnológica: el caso de una universidad pública en el estado de Guanajuato
Las innovaciones y el desarrollo tecnológico tienen un impacto local, económico y social importante, por lo que se vuelve relevante el fomento de procesos de I+D+i en las regiones. Las universidades constituyen uno de los centros encargados de generación de nuevos conocimientos que propician dichos procesos, esos nuevos conocimientos la llevan a buscar su aplicabilidad para la satisfacción de necesidades sociales. Uno de los mecanismos existentes para dicha aplicabilidad corresponde a spin-off universitarias de base tecnológica que representan nuevas empresas creadas a partir de la universidad resultado de conocimientos científicos y técnicos en ciencias e ingenierías. Es así como el objetivo de la presente investigación consiste en caracterizar a las spin-off universitarias de base tecnológica, de una universidad pública del estado de Guanajuato. El estudio corresponde a un estudio de caso, con un enfoque cualitativo empleando el diseño etnográfico; se realizaron un total de veinticuatro entrevistas a profundidad a spin-off universitarias de base tecnológica de una universidad pública del estado de Guanajuato, colaboradores de estas y a personal universitario de áreas de vinculación, extensión, proyectos y posgrados. Los resultados se agruparon en tres familias de códigos y veintidós categorías de análisis, destacándose que pueden surgir de manera planeada y no planeada. La institución de la que se desprende la spin-off es la universidad. Cuentan con figura jurídica propia, con una estructura financiera de asociados, joint venture o propia y el titular de la empresa es o fue el inventor/emprendedor y trabaja o trabajó en la universidad.
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Mother of invention : how good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men
The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because \"real men\" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were marketed as a niche product for (the presumably few) women travelling alone, and the wheeled suitcase wasn't \"invented\" until it was no longer threatening to masculinity. Mother of Invention draws on this example and many others, from electric cars to tech billionaires, to show how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back. Our traditional notions about men and women have delayed innovations, sometimes by hundreds of years, and have distorted our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, we might as well talk about the Ceramic Age or the Flax Age, since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way. Marçal takes us on a tour of the global economy, arguing that gendered assumptions dictate which businesses get funding, how we value work, and how we trace human progress.\"-- Provided by publisher
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Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas
Theories of innovation emphasize the role of social networks and teams as facilitators of breakthrough discoveries
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. Around the world, scientists and inventors are more plentiful and interconnected today than ever before
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. However, although there are more people making discoveries, and more ideas that can be reconfigured in new ways, research suggests that new ideas are getting harder to find
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. Here we shed light on this apparent puzzle. Analysing 20 million research articles and 4 million patent applications from across the globe over the past half-century, we begin by documenting the rise of remote collaboration across cities, underlining the growing interconnectedness of scientists and inventors globally. We further show that across all fields, periods and team sizes, researchers in these remote teams are consistently less likely to make breakthrough discoveries relative to their on-site counterparts. Creating a dataset that allows us to explore the division of labour in knowledge production within teams and across space, we find that among distributed team members, collaboration centres on late-stage, technical tasks involving more codified knowledge. Yet they are less likely to join forces in conceptual tasks—such as conceiving new ideas and designing research—when knowledge is tacit
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. We conclude that despite striking improvements in digital technology in recent years, remote teams are less likely to integrate the knowledge of their members to produce new, disruptive ideas.
Analysis of research articles and patent applications shows that members of teams that collaborate remotely are less likely to make breakthrough discoveries than members of on-site teams.
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