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UNCLASSIFIED / 4222.9 5EIGEAr EEO Maverick Inventor Versus Corporate Inventor: Where Will the Next Major Innovations Arise? Introduction Technological innovation has been advanced by several sectors of human society and via a diverse set of circumstances. In the early 20th century, the solitary maverick inventor was responsible for the bedrock of most of today’s industrial and commercial enterprises. As these enterprises grew larger, they could afford their own research and development departments, tasking them with developing products and processes aimed at increasing the market share of the …

UNCLASSIFIED / APOROPPECERE USE ONES propulsion, in particular aerospace and space propulsion. It is now the case that new and exotic materials and their dimensions are driving the quality and quantity of energy and propulsion innovations and preventing the average inventor from contributing new and useful forms and assemblies. The capital outlay required to probe the limits of current high technology in search of a new breakthrough is also beyond the means of the vast majority of lone inventors. These are the major reasons for the shift in focus from the lone maverick inventor to the “corpora…

UNCLASSIFIED / PO@R-OPFECEE USE OnE Maverick Inventor Most of the easy combinations of components and materials have been investigated repeatedly since the time of Michael Faraday. However, it is still to this “low-hanging fruit” that the average maverick inventor is drawn for inspiration. For example, in the area of energy innovation, it is still attractive to many inventors to try various combinations of permanent magnets and wire to try to improve the efficiency of modern electrical machinery, or better yet, claim to extract possibly limitless energy fram these magnets. The average energy i…

UNCLASSIFIED / /@@:RaG-5EIGEARU SEO ® Individual with formal training and little money. ¢ Individual with formal training and some money. « Small group (usually two or three) of knowledgeable inventors with money. “Formal training” is assumed to be in the specific scientific or engineering discipline in which the invention would naturally be situated. Of course, in the last entry in the above list, the maverick inventor begins to look more like the “corporate inventor,” but the idea should be clear. Although this paper does not dwell on the personality of the maverick inventor, it is useful to…

UNCLASSIFIED / AP@R-OPPPCRE USE OnE Table 1. Types and Examples of Think Tanks Type Universities Government Quasi-Government/ Military Corporate Privately Funded Independent, Nonprofit Examples Radlab, MIT, Cambridge, MA Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, | Livermore, CA Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY | NASA (for example, Glenn Research _ Center, Brook Park, OH DARPA, Arlington, VA | GM Research Laboratory, Warren, MI Alcatel/Lucent - Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ Skunk Works, Palmdale, CA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, W…