From the editor in chief
The British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead proclaimed that "the greatest invention of the 19th century was the invention of the method of invention." Whitehead was talking about the systematic, scientific method that led to great research universities, individual inventors such as Thomas Edison, and the major industrial research-and-development labs that have dominated patenting for decades.
Is the beginning of the 21st century witnessing the invention of a new method of invention?
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