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RESEARCH PAPER NO. 861
RETHINKING INVENTION: COGNITION AND THE ECONOMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL
CREATIVITY
BY
GARY B. MAGEE
NOVEMBER 2002
Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia
Economists have typically not devoted
much attention to the act of invention.
This paper attempts to redress this
situation by exploring a form of cognition,
analogical transfer, which is thought by
some researchers to lie at the heart of
successful creativity. An analogical
transfer is said to have occurred when information
and experiences from one known situation
is retrieved and utilized in the search
for the solution to an entirely different
situation. This paper shows how such analogical
thought can give rise to a theoretical framework,
in which disparate factors pertaining to
technological creativity can be pieced together
to yield an explanation of the level of
inventive output experienced.
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