March 1999
A Bigger Pain in the Ass
The Patent Files: Dispatches form the Frontiers of Invention
By Wade Roush
Amidst all the hype about "future firms," "innovation management" and "technoleverage," it's easy to forget that innovation starts small. The slightly mad inventor tinkering in his cellar, once a cultural hero in the United States, has been overshadowed by the product development team working in a billion-dollar research park. But Edison started out as an itinerant telegraph operator, and even today, unconventional ideas are likeliest to pop up in disestablishmentarian places-or so David Lindsay is convinced.
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