Invention and Innovation: novelty and necessity

Agricultural innovation—necessity is the mother of invention

Innovation is the process leading to the adoption of new or existing information, technology or practices; it includes factors that affect demand for and use of knowledge in novel and useful ways. In agriculture, innovation is essential to maintain productivity growth, to address issues around sustaining the natural resource base and to adapt to climate change. This paper examines the innovatio...

Necessity is the mother of invention.

A well executed transseptal puncture is crucial for successful percutaneous transvenous mitral balloon valvotomy. We report a case of accidentally damaged Mullins sheath dilator. Due to immediate unavailability of another dilator at cardiac catheterization laboratory, angioplasty guidewire and balloon was used as an additional assisting armamentarium for successful percutaneous transvenous mitr...

novelty; the excellent qualification of any invention

every invention in order to be registered, should have essential conditions and the legal due process should be complied with. the novelty is a traditional qualification of any invention, which must be considered objectively; the applicant’s awareness or his ignorance in regard to it's public release, is not efficient in the maintenance or decline of invention’s novelty. the state of the a...

Invention, Diffusion and Linear Models of Innovation

There exist two sequential or linear models of innovation in the literature. One is the " linear model of innovation " as such. The model comes from management and economics, and their concern with studying the origin of inventions. The other model, of which the linear model of innovation is one part or step, is that of innovation as a process of invention followed by diffusion. This " model " ...

Telecommunications Infrastructure and Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion Processes