This book provides the reader with the information they need to develop into a person who seeks creative opportunities and responds with elegant inventions. It is intended for young inventor and to all those who have the talent and the desire to invent.
1. The Climate for Invention
2. Examples of Inventions
3. Learning from Great Inventors of the Past
4. Theories of Creativity
5. A Survey of Inventors
6. How to Improve Your Ability
7. Choosing the Best Strategy
8. Methods to Stimulate Invention
9. Serendipity: Invention by Accident
10. Tests to Measure Creativity
11. After the Invention
12. Preparing to Sell Your Invention
13. Compensation
14. Refuting the NIH theory
15. Finding Standards that Affect Your Invention
16. Case Histories
17. Closure
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