Exploring Invention Capability

Vaughan Michell, Rajeth Surrendran

2015

Abstract

Research on invention has focused on business invention and little work has been conducted on the process and capability required for the individual inventor or the capabilities required for an advice to be considered an invention. This paper synthesises the results of an empirical survey of ten inventor case studies with current research on invention and recent capability affordance research to develop an integrated capability process model of human capabilities for invention and specific capabilities of an invented device. We identify eight necessary human effectivities required for individual invention capability and six functional key activities using these effectivities, to deliver the functional capability of invention. We also identified key differences between invention and general problem solving processes. Results suggest that inventive step capability relies on a unique application of principles that relate to a new combination of affordance chain with a new mechanism and or space time (affordance) path representing the novel way the device works, in conjunction with defined critical affordance operating factors that are the subject of the patent claims.

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Michell V. and Surrendran R. (2015). Exploring Invention Capability . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-111-3, pages 107-116. DOI: 10.5220/0005886001070116


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@conference{bmsd15,
author={Vaughan Michell and Rajeth Surrendran},
title={Exploring Invention Capability},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2015},
pages={107-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005886001070116},
isbn={978-989-758-111-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Exploring Invention Capability
SN - 978-989-758-111-3
AU - Michell V.
AU - Surrendran R.
PY - 2015
SP - 107
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0005886001070116