Reinvention for sustainability
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Reinvention of forgotten technologies has a role to play in the introduction of new technologies, as around 1% of reported inventions are reinventions. At the current time the process by which reinvention occurs is random, relying on erendipity rather than through directed activities. Earlier work with a proprietary research archive demonstrates that reinventions can be successfully and efficiently identified through a methodical interrogation of research records. Between 5 and 7% of the identified research areas yielded a possible reinvention. This figure indicates that reinvention could have a larger impact in technology development if research is actively managed, rather than the current practice of relying on serendipity to initiate a reinvention. The question is what open data can mean for sustainable innovation, and how proprietary research archives can become more open.
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