| Description |
1 online resource (lxvi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Prologue: Unlearning What's Untrue; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Model; About the Authors; Chapter 1 -- Invention: An Attempt to Improve the World; Chapter 2 -- Understanding Inventions: A Brief Introduction to the System Model; Chapter 3 -- Understanding Patents: An Application of the System Model; Chapter 4 -- System Interfaces: How the Elements Work Together; Chapter 5 -- System Control Points: Where to Aim the Silver Bullets; Chapter 6 -- Outside the Box: Developing Skills for Creative Thinking |
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Chapter 7 -- Seeing the Outlines of the Box: Discovering the Boundaries of a SystemChapter 8 -- Inventor's Luck: A System Perspective; Chapter 9 -- The Three Magicians: Tools for Flexible Thinking; Chapter 10 -- Imagination Development: Seeing the World beyond Present-Day Constraints; Chapter 11 -- The S Curve: Dynamics of Systems Thinking; Chapter 12 -- A Stage of System Evolution: Synthesis; Chapter 13 -- A Stage of System Evolution: Early Growth; Chapter 14 -- A Stage of System Evolution: Distribution Buildup; Chapter 15 -- Growing Up: A Paradigm Shift within the System |
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Chapter 16 -- Infrastructure Innovations: Timing Is EverythingChapter 17 -- Infrastructure and Growth: Zooming In on the Micro Level; Chapter 18 -- A Stage of System Evolution: Efficiency; Chapter 19 -- Payload Evolution: From Physical to Virtual; Chapter 20 -- The Web Is Dead: Abandoning Documents and Files in Favor of Information Streams; Chapter 21 -- Deconstructing Luck: Factors Affecting the Success of a System; Chapter 22 -- Seeing the Invisible: The System behind the New Internet; Chapter 23 -- The Book Electric: A Scenario of E-Book Evolution |
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Chapter 24 -- Payload Overload: Managing the Ever-Increasing Flows of InformationChapter 25 -- Anticipating Control Problems: The Telegram before the Train; Chapter 26 -- System Efficiency: Solving Detection Problems to Improve Control; Chapter 27 -- Stages of System Evolution: Deep Integration; Chapter 28 -- Choosing the Right Problem: Matching Innovation Targets with Stages of System Evolution; Chapter 29 -- Tech Battles: Discovering System-Level Competitive Advantages; Chapter 30 -- TiVo versus VCR: A Detailed Application Example of the Tech Battle Technique; Back Cover |
| Summary |
PROLOGUE: Unlearning What's Untrue. SECTION I SystemsInvention: An Attempt to Improve the World Understanding Inventions: A Brief Introduction to the System ModelUnderstanding Patents: An Application of the System ModelSystem Interfaces: How the Elements Work TogetherSystem Control Points: Where to Aim the Silver BulletsSECTION II Outside the BoxOutside the Box: Developing Skills for Creative ThinkingSeeing the Outlines of the Box: Discovering the Boundaries of a SystemInventor's Luck: A System PerspectiveThe Three Magicians: Tools for Flexible ThinkingImagination Development: Seeing the World |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed January 14, 2015) |
| Subject |
Technological innovations.
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Inventions.
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Inventions -- Economic aspects
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Inventions.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference.
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Inventions
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Inventions -- Economic aspects
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Technological innovations
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shtein, Max, 1976- author.
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| ISBN |
9781466590984 |
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146659098X |
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