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Here is a download link for the Keynote (original) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2847329/Inventing%20Merit%20Badge.key and the PowerPoint (converted) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2847329/Inventing%20Merit%20Badge.ppt - since the PowerPoint is converted from the Keynote it may not be exactly right. Be sure to review it first.
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To identify the four models of market opportunity: competition, innovation, alertness and social need
To examine the role of creativity and to review the major components of the creative process: knowledge accumulation, incubation process, idea evaluation and implementation
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To review some of the major misconceptions associated with innovation and to define the 10 principles of innovation
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**NOTE: if you would like to use this presentation to create your own Sustainability Merit Badge class presentation, I am happy to share the PowerPoint file and my lecture outline with you. Please email me at using the email address in the first slide to request.**
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A Sustainability Merit Badge presentation for Boy Scouts. Please use freely but click "like" and send me an e-mail at joelhebdon@aol.com identifying yourself, the number of scouts viewing the presentations, and leaving feedback. A work in progress, please make comments and I'll try to update it to further improve it, make it more universally useful, and accessible to the most Scouts possible.
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To define and illustrate the sources of opportunity for entrepreneurs
To identify the four models of market opportunity: competition, innovation, alertness and social need
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To present ways of developing personal creativity: recognise relationships, use lateral thinking, use your ‘brains’, think outside the box, identify arenas of creativity and work in creative climates
To introduce how innovation can inspire opportunity through invention, extension, duplication and synthesis
To review some of the major misconceptions associated with innovation and to define the 10 principles of innovation
To consider the challenges and changing dynamics of social and sustainability innovation
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2. INVENTION MERIT BADGE
• Very new merit badge in 2010
• Replaces Invention merit badge
• Available from 1911 - 1915
• Required patenting a new invention
• Only earned by 10 boys
• Still requires inventing, but no patenting
• Closely related to a lot of other merit badges
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4. REQUIREMENTS (COVERED)
1. In your own words, define inventing. Then do 3.b. Explain the components of a patent and
the following: the different types of patents available.
a. Explain to your merit badge counselor the 3.d. Explain to your counselor the term patent
role of inventors and their inventions in the infringement.
economic development of the United States.
4. Discuss with your counselor the types of
b. List three inventions and state how they inventions that are appropriate to share with
have helped humankind. others, and explain why. Tell your counselor
about one non-patented or non-copyrighted
2.b. Read about three inventors. Select the one invention and its impact on society.
you find most interesting and tell your counselor
what you learned. 9. Discuss with your counselor the diverse
skills, education, training, and experience it takes
3.a. Define the term intellectual property. to be an inventor. Discuss how you can prepare
Explain which government agencies oversee the yourself to be creative and inventive to solve
protection of intellectual property, the types of problems at home, in school, and in your
intellectual property that can be protected, how community. Discuss three career fields that
such property is protected, and why protection might utilize the skills of an inventor.
is necessary.
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5. REQUIREMENTS (LATER)
3.c. Examine your Scouting gear and find a patent number on c. Share the idea and the model with your counselor and
a camping item you have used. With your parent’s permission, potential users of your invention. Record their feedback in
use the Internet to find out more about that patent. Compare your notebook.
the finished item with the claims and drawings in the patent.
Report what you learned to your counselor. 7. Build a working prototype of the item you invented for
requirement 6*. Test and evaluate the invention. Among the
5. Choose a commercially available product that you have aspects to consider in your evaluation are cost, usefulness,
used on an overnight camping trip with your troop. Make marketability, appearance, and function. Describe how your
recommendations for improving the product, and make a original vision and expectations for your invention are similar
sketch that shows your recommendations. Discuss your or dissimilar to the prototype you built. Have your counselor
recommendations with your counselor. evaluate and critique your prototype.
6. Think of an item you would like to invent that would solve Before you begin building the prototype, you must have your
a problem for your family, troop, chartered organization, counselor’s approval, based on the design and building plans you
community, or a special-interest group. Then do EACH of the have already shared.
following, while keeping a notebook to record your progress:
8. Do ONE of the following:
a. Talk to potential users of your invention and determine
their needs. Then, based on what you have learned, write a a. Participate with a club or team (robotics team, science
statement describing the invention and how it would help club, or engineering club) that builds a useful item. Share
solve a problem. This statement should include detailed your experience with your counselor.
sketch of the invention.
b. Visit a museum or exhibit dedicated to an inventor or
b. Create a model of the invention using clay, cardboard, invention, and create a presentation of your visit to share
or any other readily available material. List the materials with a group such as your troop or patrol.
necessary to build a prototype of the invention.
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6. WHAT IS INVENTING?
To create something new or improved
that is useful or helpful.
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7. HOW TO BE AN INVENTOR
• Ask Why, How & What if?
• Not be satisfied with the way things are.
• See problems as opportunities.
• Keep a written record of problems, ideas, research, etc.
• Always keep learning!
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8. SPECTRUM OF
PROBLEM SOLVING
Creative and
Routine and
Unique
Predictable
Inventions
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12. HOW DOES INNOVATION
HELP THE U.S. ECONOMY?
• Create new products to sell
• More efficient ways to do things
• Extend and improve life of citizens
• Provide more leisure time for recreation
• Macroinventions lead to new industries and Microinventions
12 1.a
13. FAMOUS INVENTIONS
• Mechanical Reaper - Cyrus McCormick (1809 - 1884)
• Integrated Circuit - Microchip - Jack Kilby (1923 - 2005)
• Air Plane - powered flight - Wright Brothers (1867 - 1948)
• Moving Assembly Line - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
• Electronic Television - Philo T. Farnsworth (1906 - 1971)
• World Wide Web - Hyper Text - Tim Berners-Lee (1955 - )
• Bright Blue LED - Shuji Nakamura (1954 - )
• Wheel - Ancient Mesopotamians - 5000 B.C.
13 1.b
15. THOMAS ALVA EDISON
• 3rd most U.S. utility patents ever
• 1,093U.S. patents and 2,332 total
patents world wide
• Electric
power, electric lighting, batteries,
phonograph, cement, telegraphy, mining
• Lived 1847–1931
• “Genius is one percent inspiration,
ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
15 2.b
16. THOMAS ALVA EDISON
• American inventor, scientist, and
businessman.
• Only had three months of official
schooling. Home-schooled by mother for
rest of education.
• “IfI find 10,000 ways something won't
work, I haven't failed. I am not
discouraged, because every wrong
attempt discarded is another step
forward.”
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17. THOMAS ALVA EDISON
• Didn’tbelieve in wasting time on
inventions people didn’t want to buy.
• Favoriteinvention was gramophone.
Was very hard of hearing and would
press jaw bone against it to hear
music.
• “Everything comes to him who
hustles while he waits.”
17 2.b
18. THOMAS ALVA EDISON
• Nonviolence was key to Edison's moral
views, and when asked to serve as a naval
consultant for World War I, he specified he
would work only on defensive weapons.
• Success came from ability to maximize
profits through establishment of mass-
production systems and intellectual property
rights.
• “Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks
like work.”
18 2.b
19. THOMAS ALVA EDISON
• What did you learn about Thomas
Edison?
• What did he invent?
• How was he successful?
• What motivated him?
• Can you quote him?
19 2.b
20. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
• Legal
recognition of property (as an idea, invention, or
process) that derives from the work of the mind or intellect
•A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a
manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which
one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.
• Gives owners limited exclusive rights in exchange.
• Usually requires full disclosure.
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22. TRADEMARK
• Applies to distinctive words, phrases, symbols, and designs
• Usedby an individual or business organization to identify that the
products or services originate from a unique source.
•™ - Unregistered Trademark (free)
•® - Registered Trademark (requires registration and fee)
• Must register to litigate
• Perpetual rights if maintained - used and defended
22 3.a
23. PATENT
• Applies
to discoveries, inventions and
improvements, not “ideas”
• Must be novel, useful and non-obvious
• Requiresfull disclosure and registration
(enough to enable reproduction)
• Lengthy and expensive registration process
• Goodfor 40 years, subject to limited
renewals
• Protectsagainst others independently
discovering
23 3.a
24. TRADE SECRETS
• Similarto patents, but kept a total secret instead of fully
disclosed.
• Only protected as long as kept a secret.
• Must have economic value and be used commercially.
• Illegal
to disclose trade secrets protected under non-disclosure
agreement.
• Lost if discovered independently by someone else
24 3.a
25. U.S. PATENT
AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
• uspto.gov
• Part
of Department of
Commerce
• No international or global
jurisdiction.
25 3.a
26. U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE
• copyright.gov
• Part of Library of Commerce
• No international or global
jurisdiction.
26 3.a
27. REVIEW IP
• Which government agencies oversee the
protection of intellectual property?
• What
• How
• Why
types of intellectual property that
can be protected?
is such property is protected?
is protection necessary?
?
27 3.a
30. TYPES OF PATENTS
• Utility
Patents - Useful process, machine, device, or
improvement thereof (includes software patents, etc.)
• Design Patents - Ornamental design of a functional item
• Plant Patent - For discovery or creation of new variety of
plant
• Business method patent - New way of doing business
30 3.b
31. PATENT INFRINGEMENT
• Manufacturing, usingor selling a patented invention without
license (permission) to do so
• Does not require knowledge of patent
• Specific to territorial jurisdiction of patent
• Specific claims are listed for each patent
31 3.d
33. WHEN AND WHY TO SHARE?
• When would you not get a patent?
• What are the advantages of not getting
?
a patent?
• How can you share a creative work that
is subject to copyright?
• Name a non-patented or freely licensed
work. How does it impact society?
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34. INVENTING AS A CAREER
• Typically
a inventor is a creative and innovative in the field of
their profession and interests.
• What toys and hobbies help you be more inventive?
• What school classes might be useful to an inventor?
• Find academic and creative clubs and organizations
• Business skills are important to profit from inventions
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