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1.) Introduction

2.) Part 1 Investigating the innovation process

3.) 1.1 Everyday life

4.) 1.2 The inventive drive

5.) 2.1 Your experience of innovation

6.) 3.1 An explanation

7.) 3.2 When and where was the telephone invented?

8.) 3.3 Who invented the telephone?

9.) 3.4 What was innovative about the telephone?

10.) 3.5 Was the telephone invented in response to a need or because of developments in technology?

11.) 3.6 Was the telephone an immediate success?

12.) 3.7 Has telephone design changed over time?

13.) 3.8 Has the telephone led to any related or spin-off products?

14.) 3.9 A consumer's experience of innovation

15.) 3.10 What has been learnt from the history of the telephone?

16.) 4.1 Introduction to key concepts

17.) 4.2 Inventors and inventions

18.) 4.3 Designs

19.) 4.4 Product champion

20.) 4.5 Entrepreneur

21.) 4.6 Improver

22.) 4.7 Innovation

23.) 4.8 Dominant design

24.) 4.9 Robust design and lean design

25.) 4.10 Radical innovation and incremental innovation

26.) 4.11 Sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation

27.) 4.12 Process innovation

28.) 4.13 Diffusion and suppression

29.) 4.14 Compact fluorescents and new developments

30.) 4.15 Intellectual property and patents

31.) 5.1 Evolutionary development

32.) 5.2 Are cylinder ships a dead-end invention?

33.) Part 1: 6 Self-assessment questions

34.) Part 1: 7 Key points of Part 1

35.) Part 2: Invention

36.) 1.1 What motivates individuals to invent?

37.) 1.2 Scientific or technical curiosity

38.) 1.3 Constructive discontent

39.) 1.4 Desire to make money

40.) 1.5 Desire to help others

41.) 1.6 What drives invention in organisations?

42.) 1.7 Business strategy

43.) 1.8 Need to improve product or process

44.) 1.9 Opportunity offered by a new material, technology or manufacturing process

45.) 1.10 Government policy, legislation and regulations

46.) 2.1 Five steps to invention

47.) 2.2 Step 1 – identification of the problem

48.) 2.3 Step 2 – exploration

49.) 2.4 Step 3 – incubation

50.) 2.5 Step 4 – act of insight

51.) 2.6 Step 5 – critical revision

52.) 2.7 Characteristics of inventors

53.) 3.1 Two models

54.) 3.2 Technology push

55.) 3.3 Market pull

56.) 3.4 Coupling model

57.) Part 2: 4 Preparing for innovation

58.) Part 2: 5 Self-assessment questions

59.) Part 2: 6 Key points of Part 2

60.) Part 3: Innovation

61.) 1.1 Getting the technology to work

62.) 1.2 Getting finance and organisational backing

63.) 1.3 Choosing appropriate materials and manufacturing process

64.) 1.4 Standards and their role in innovation

65.) 2.1 Introduction to diffusion

66.) 2.2 Characteristics of the innovation

67.) 2.3 Characteristics of consumers and the market

68.) 2.4 MP3's diffusion depended on innovations in related areas

69.) 2.5 Government regulations and legislation

70.) Part 3: 3 Sustaining and disruptive innovation

71.) Part 3: 4 Phases and waves of innovation

72.) Part 3: 5 Self-assessment questions

73.) Part 3: 6 Key points of Part 3

74.) References

75.) Acknowledgements

76.) Related educational resources

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