“Scientific technology” has progressively displaced “empirical technology” as the primary driver and basis for increasing economic development over the last four centuries. The integration of the power technologies developed during the 17th – 19th Centuries, with the mechanization of thought developed in the 20th Century, has increased the scale and efficiency of formal inventive and innovation processes as the key sources of wealth creation by innovation.

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Editors:

J. A. Sekhar and J. P. Dismukes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4028/b-RXI9Ep

THEMA:

TGM

BISAC:

TEC021000

Keywords:

Advance Materials, Aero-Propulsion, Alternative Energy, Aluminum (Al), Composite, Innovation

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Special topic volume with invited papers only

Pages:

250

Year:

2008

ISBN-13 (softcover):

9780878493890

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9783908453390

ISBN-13 (eBook):

9783038131847

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Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: The 14 papers collected in this volume survey key innovations and inventions in the world of materials science. Opening papers address general questions of the nature of invention and innovation and the mathematics that underlie innovation in engineering. Two papers then discuss the contribution of innovation in materials to alternative energy generation systems. The remaining papers review key innovations in the realms of electronic materials, jet engine materials, ophthalmologic materials, glass, wood, commercial nano-fibers, aluminum, and iron.