The first two criteria allow us to identify potentially radical inventions ex ante market introduction; adding the third condition, we can ex post determine if an invention served as an important change agent.
Following the Restoration, Rupert returned to England, becoming a senior British naval commander during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars, engaging in scientific invention, art, and serving as the first Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
The robots' creators, and the bureaucracies financing them, beg the question of whether the inventions will serve as precursors or substitutes for human missions.
One of the designers even came up with a whole new invention to serve as a bonus feature: the Ejector Plug, which utilized a small lever to assist in unplugging devices from cords.
However, the telegraph system gave rise to a number of other related industries and inventions and, thus, served as a catalyst for design of electromagnetic inventions grounded in scientific knowledge.
The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize is a national collegiate invention prize program, supported by The Lemelson Foundation, serving as a catalyst for burgeoning young inventors.
The core of the building's design is its flexibility, so that it can adapt to different art forms and evolving technologies, serving as a center for creative invention.
As with much world-changing art, you can feel that "Migration" is the invention less of an individual artist than of the artist serving as an instrument of invisible, urgent powers.
Although only inventions adopted for use can be called innovations, "inactive" inventions can also serve as building blocks.
The narrator, Anling, a middle-aged Chinese woman, may be Ha Jin's invention, but she serves as assistant to a well-documented real-life character, Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary from Illinois who served as acting head of Jinling College.
In Memory Burn, a new Bitforms Gallery exhibition curated by Chris Romero, The Invention of Morel serves as a starting point for art that treads similar conceptual territory.
