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Failure to capitalize on inventions
Name(s):
Inadequate support for inventors
Nature
The relationships between inventors and those who bring inventions to the marketplace is not such as to ensure rapid diffusion of innovations.
Aggravated by
Fear of new technology
Technological monoculture
Disincentives to invention
Disputed priority of innovations
Suppression of creativity and innovation
Elitist control of information technology
Centralized decisions on local technological innovation
Strategy(ies)
Capitalizing on inventions
Improving support for inventors
Value(s)
Support
Failure
Inadequacy
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems