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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Failure to capitalize on inventions

Failure to capitalize on inventions

  • 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

Poor supplier relationships
Excellent
Technological monoculture
Presentable
Suppression of creativity and innovation
Presentable
Elitist control of information technology
Presentable
Disincentives to invention
Unpresentable
Fear of new technology
Yet to rate
Disputed priority of innovations
Yet to rate
Centralized decisions on local technological innovation
Yet to rate

Strategy

Improving support for inventors
Yet to rate
Capitalizing on inventions
Yet to rate

Value

Support
Yet to rate
Inadequacy
Yet to rate
Failure
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
J3668
DOCID
12036680
D7NID
134835
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/problem/failure-capitalize-inventions
Last update
Oct 16, 2024