Incremental improvement or genuine invention? The line keeps moving

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Independent inventors and corporate R&D enter the same category by very different routes How the word innovator became a category with a profile attached to it Counting inventions: patents filed vs products shipped vs problems solved — the measure decides the ranking Who counts as an inventor: the attribution rules behind the names on a patent The collaborators an innovator cannot do without and rarely names Employee inventions: the company holds the patent and the engineer holds a bonus Simultaneous invention: the same idea appears in several places and only one gets credit Ideas that fail belong to no category: why the record of invention lists successes only Innovation without an inventor: recognition that attaches to a lab or a firm or a nation The traits attributed to innovators after the fact rest on thinner evidence than the storytelling suggests

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