Introduction / Steve Joshua Heims -- 1. The Need and Conditions for Invention -- 2. The Intellectual Climate and Invention -- 3. Circumstances Favorable and Unfavorable to Original Ideas -- 4. The Technical Climate and Invention -- 5. The Social Climate and Invention -- 6. The Scientific Climate at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- 7. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science -- 8. The Present Social Environment of Invention: Megabuck Science, Part II -- 9. Noncalculable Risks and the Economic Environment of Invention -- 10. Patents and Invention: The American Patent System -- 11. Goals and Problems
