This presentation discusses the process of invention from conceptualization to implementation. It explores how inventions are ideas that are realized and can improve over time as other changes occur. Inventions serve various purposes that may differ and change. The presentation also examines how creativity and collaboration can lead to new inventions in fields like art, where artists may invent new techniques or forms of expression.

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THE
PROCESS OF
INVENTION
an improvement upon a machine or product
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THE
CULTURAL
INVENTION
social behaviours passed on to others.
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History shows that turning the
concept of an invention into a
working device is not always swift
or direct. Inventions may also
become more useful after time
passes and other changes occur.
For example, the parachute
became more useful once
powered flight was a reality.
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PROCESS
OF
INVENTION

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IMPROVE
SOMETHING
BY MAKING IT
MORE
EFFECTIVE
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CONCEPTUAL
MEANS
Play - Play may lead to invention.
Childhood curiosity, experimentation,
and imagination.
Re-envision - To invent is to see anew.
Inventors often envision a new idea,
seeing it in their mind's eye.
Insight - Such inventive insight may
begin with questions, doubt or a hunch.
Exploration - Invention is often an
exploratory process with an uncertain
or unknown outcome.

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CREATIVITY technology, theology,
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sociology, linguistics,
business studies, and
economics, taking in the
relationship between
creativity and general
intelligence, mental and
neurological processes
associated with creativity
The range of scholarly
interest in creativity
includes a multitude of
definitions and
approaches involving
several disciplines;
psychology, cognitive
science, education,
philosophy (particularly
philosophy of science),

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An invention can
serve many
purposes. These
purposes might
differ significantly
and may change
PURPOSES OF INVENTION over time.
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PATENT IS A SET OF EXCLUSIVE
RIGHTS
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The costs of
preparing and
filing a patent
application,
prosecuting it
until grant and
maintaining the
patent vary
from one
jurisdiction to
another
116%
98%
63%
72%

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LAW ECONOMICS
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Effects
Ownership
Application
Prosecution
Costs
CRITICISM
Approved
Enforcement of
patents

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One of the
central
concepts of
economics is
that
externalities
should be
IMPLEMENTING INVENTIONS internalized
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Reinventing art
Many artists, designers, and
architects think like inventors.
As they create, they may
explore beyond what is known
or obvious.
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Inventions in art are
new processes of
creation
New mediums, and new art
forms. Some visual artists like
Picasso become inventors in
the process of creating art.
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As the dialogue
between Picasso
and Braque brought
about Cubism, such
collaborations
spawn many
inventions.
used welding to
invent a new
kind of
sculpture, the
form of which
could be more
open to light and
air.
Some inventions
in visual art
employ prior
developments in
science or
technology. For
example, Picasso
and Julio
Gonzalez

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AN INNOVATION IS
SOMETHING THAT IS
NEW, BETTER, AND
HAS BEEN ADOPTED
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INVENTION VS. INNOVATION