........... just utilising previous discoveries and adding bits and bobs...... therefore every so-called invention is in fact an inovation. What is the point at which an inovation becomes an invention. Could be a bit of a philosophical one this.
Any Ideas.
2006-09-23 09:22:04 · 10 answers · asked by ? 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
st got this answer
*invention is discovering something new where as innovation is finding new techniques in old methods.
got it?*.. missing my point by amillion miles
2006-09-23 09:40:04 · update #1
This is a good question. I don't see where anyone is getting this idea you think "everything" has already been invented.
If you look at a telephone, all the elements existed, it was Bell (and others) who had the idea of combining them.
To me invention is the "putting together" bit. Innovation is the improvement.
You may still be able to get hold of the books "The day the Universe changed" ISBN: 0316117048 or "Connections" ISBN: 0316116858 both written by James Burke, which explore this theme in some detail. there were TV series in the 1970's / 1980's and may be on DVD
2006-09-23 10:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think this is a complicated question, and one that potentially affects your outlook on our future. If everything has been "invented", then why bother trying to dream up something new? And if everything has been invented, how in the world are we going to solve global warming and cancer - nothing we have right now will work.
I think, though, that you assuming that everything has been "invented" speaks to your limited scope - everything you use today has been around for a while. But there are lots of things being invented in the biological fields - new drugs, new materials, new procedures. Along with new scientific knowledge about matter, anti-matter and the like will come new inventions that seek to use this knowledge for the betterment of man.
2006-09-23 10:01:30 · answer #2 · answered by Samantha E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invention is something new that you that can obtain a patent. An
innovation is something new that is added to the invention and can
not be patented. You are quite right when you say adding bits and
bobs and I will include design. There are so many "copycats" that
patenting rules are quite strict and so they should be. Innovation,
I think, is a sales gimmick to fool the foolish.
2006-09-23 09:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by Ricky 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
inventing something is when you make something entirley new,and an inovation is making an improvment on an already standing invention.
the airplane was an invention,the concord was an inovation.
2006-09-23 10:10:37 · answer #4 · answered by roachbandit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may invent something by ability of putting issues mutually. you come across something by ability of finding it. technically, you additionally could make a discovery by ability of inventing something. as an occasion, you got here upon the assumption of sunshine by ability of inventing hearth in a dismal room. i be attentive to that is notably imprecise yet you get the assumption. im giving this question a celebrity! i think of that is exciting.
2016-10-17 12:41:56 · answer #5 · answered by mcsweeney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invention is something new, previously not obvious to someone educated or practiced in the art.
They have the same root, esentially the same thing.
With regard to patents, it cannot be an obvious extention to known art, and to be patentable, it must be useful. (Oh yea, it must work, or do what it is claimed to do.)
2006-09-23 10:08:25 · answer #6 · answered by mt_hopper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to invent is to do something new or unique .... to innovate is to improve or change a known process for the better
2006-09-23 12:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by Kev R at work need beer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
invention is discovering something new where as innovation is finding new techniques in old methods.
got it?
2006-09-23 09:31:01 · answer #8 · answered by shalin j 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i think its not big problem to explain each term but i think whats imporatant how good can we utilize each invention or innovation ,, may be there are such standards to consider that but never heard about them before
2006-09-23 09:42:56 · answer #9 · answered by source_of_love_69 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look up a dictionary...........
2006-09-23 09:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by Bob The Builder 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋